To ensure that slaves would remain on the plantations and bear future slaves,may owners encouraged them to marry and have large families.

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Slave owners believed that having stable marriages and large families would increase the number of slaves on their plantations, and therefore, their wealth and power. They often encouraged and even forced slaves to marry and have children, even if it meant separating spouses or selling children away from their parents.

To Ensure That Slaves Would Remain on the Plantations and Bear