The Plantation of “Big Jim” McClain, Where Enslaved Africans Were Forced to Breed Under Supervision
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In the history of American slavery, some slaveholders are remembered not because of the wealth they accumulated but because of the suffering they inflicted on the Africans they enslaved. One such figure was “Big Jim” McClain, a slave master in Virginia whose name survived mainly through the testimony of people who lived under his rule. […]
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