While stories like this happened more than most people think, it wasn't super common either, for obvious reasons.
There was a wealthy slave owner and Revolutionary War general, Robert Howe, whose daughter had 2 children by one of his black slaves. We only know this because the Venezuelan revolutionary, Francisco de Miranda, wrote about it in his diary when he was in exile in the US.
There was a wealthy slave owner and Revolutionary War general, Robert Howe, whose daughter had 2 children by one of his black slaves. We only know this because the Venezuelan revolutionary, Francisco de Miranda, wrote about it in his diary when he was in exile in the US.
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