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The assessment of slave children ranked higher with slaveholders than the naming of children. Newborns were assets of little worth, but over time their financial value appreciated. The price of slaves varied according to age, sex, and health. The 1819 inventory and appraisal of slaves belonging to Robert Moore Raddick listed twenty-one year-old Maria as worth $325 and her eighteen month old daughter as worth $80. The value of the thirty-year-old Charlotte was $275 and her three year-old son Charles’s was $150, while her daughter Edith, a “child at breast,” was worth only $25.Mingo, an old and ill slave, was worthless according to the record. The Louisiana slaveholder James Coles Bruce listed the seventy-year-old slave “Old Daniel” and described him as “old and described.” The remark “no earthly use” followed the name of One Leg Bob, a fifty-year-old-male. The age and health of these two men rendered them worthless monetarily. Plantation inventories display a callous indifference in listing the value of slaves, yet they were handy references should slaveholders wish to sell or hire out their slaves for pecuniary purposes.(29)
Frances Kemble, an astute observer of conditions on her husband’s plantation, noted that some enslaved women had a “distinct and perfect knowledge of their value to their owners as property.” She conceded that they were not far off the mark in thinking they added to the number of their owner’s “livestock by bringing new slaves into the world.” They made claims upon his “consideration and good will” in proportion to the number of children they bore. Kemble based her observation, in part, upon the mothers who proudly informed her of the size of their families. “Look missis,” a woman called out, “little niggets for you and massa; plenty little niggets for you.”(30)
Not all enslaved parents put a price tag on their children or used them as bargaining chips. Some mothers and fathers were sorely distressed ar delivering their offspring into a life of bondage. At the birth of his daughter, Henry Bibb vowed never to father another child while enslaved. Thomas II. Jones’s wails were pricing. “I am a father and have had the same feeling of unspeakable anguish as I looked upon my precious babes,” he cried, “and have
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