i am still trying to finish this book but it's been triggering:
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
by the start of the Civil War, states like Virginia made more money breeding and selling babies than producing cotton.
it's the only reason the Confederacy was ever created: they wanted to expand their slave breeding farms across the US continent and then towards the South into ALL OF LATIN AMERICA.
this was their birth right and MANIFEST DESTINY