Children of the plantation

"Children of the plantation" was a euphemism used in the 17th-century United States to identify the offspring of black slave women by their white owners. Such children, who were legally slaves, were seldom acknowledged by their white fathers.

Alex Haley's Queen (1993) is a partly factual historical novel, now made into a movie, that has helped to bring knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention in recent years.

See also

• Slave breeding in the United States

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