[Colonel Kangaroo]

If I was a slave owner who had absolute property rights as Dred Scott ruled, I could sell my slave Mr. Jones to another man across the country and still keep Mrs. Jones on my plantation, breaking up the marriage.

[aruanan]

If I was a slave owner who had absolute property rights as Dred Scott ruled, I could sell my slave Mr. Jones to another man across the country and still keep Mrs. Jones on my plantation, breaking up the marriage.

That almost never happened. Marriages were encouraged. Infidelity was punished because of the turmoil it caused. Premarital chastity was carefully guarded by slave parents. As a result, the United States accounted for only about 6% of all slave imports into the new world. The lurid stories about slave breeding operations were just that, lurid stories concocted by abolitionists who, ironically, were almost uniformly about as racist as any cracker.