http://www.metafilter.com/tags/(history) Posts tagged with '(history)' at MetaFilter. Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:24:38 -0800 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:24:38 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/43415/History%2DLessons <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASmulatto.htm">Mulattoes</a> <em>Child-bearing amongst slaves started around the age of thirteen, and by twenty the women would be expected to have four or five children. To encourage child-bearing some population owners promised women slaves their freedom after they had produced fifteen children. </em> The folks who told these stories had reasons to cry out in anger that most of us (on the blue) probably don't. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43415 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:24:38 -0800 (history) (racism) (sexism) snsranch