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The antebellum period in the United States prior to the civil war saw the breeding of slaves as a lucrative enterprise. The ban in 1807 on the importation of slaves followed by the boom in export markets for cotton and tobacco over the next fifty years made the able-bodied slave a valuable commodity. Rich, white males interjected their own characteristics into the slave gene pool the terms mulatto for half black, quadroon for those with ¼ black blood and octoroon for those who were one-eighth black became common descriptive terms. It was not uncommon for the gentry up in the main house to have half brothers and half sisters among the slaves on the plantation.
Jacob is a plantation owner with a wife named Amanda and two daughters Alisa aged 11 and Maggie aged 12. His daughters have a playmate slave named Sary aged 12.Series
- Part 2 of Songs of the South