In the antebellum American South, was slave “husbandry” (for lack of a better, humanizing term) common and did it create a significant change in the slave population over time?
This has been asked here a couple times before:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7dyqwj/selective_breeding_of_slaves_for_physical_traits/dq1cd2l/
and
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3wqw2g/selective_breeding_during_american_slavery/cxyl5yg/