| 词汇 | breeding woman |
| 词源 | breeding woman. A term used by slaveowners for a slave woman who was kept to bear children. Frederick L. Olmsted’s A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856) reported, “A breeding woman is worth from one-sixth to one-fourth more than one that does not breed.” The vicious term breeder was used to refer to men as well as women who were kept to pro- duce children. |
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