{"id":458,"date":"2025-10-09T04:58:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/a-history-of-the-slave-breeding-industry-in-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:58:44","slug":"a-history-of-the-slave-breeding-industry-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/a-history-of-the-slave-breeding-industry-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By a conservative estimate, in 1860 the total value of American slaves was $4 billion, far more than the gold and silver then circulating nationally ($228.3 million, \u201cmost of it in the North,\u201d the authors add), total currency ($435.4 million), and even the value of the South\u2019s total farmland ($1.92 billion). Slaves were, to slavers, worth more than everything else they could imagine combined.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/16\/02\/a-history-of-the-slave-breeding-industry-in-the-united-states\">kottke.org\/16\/02\/a-history-of-the-slave-breeding-industry-in-the-united-states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a conservative estimate, in 1860 the total value of American slaves was $4 billion, far more than the gold and silver then circulating nationally ($228.3 million, \u201cmost of it in the North,\u201d the authors add), total currency ($435.4 million), and even the value of the South\u2019s total farmland ($1.92 billion). Slaves were, to slavers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}