This also divests the slave of his or her name, lineage, and means the slave family can be broken at any moment.
Typical slave families consisted of one or two children.
By the time of Jefferson's death, some slave families had labored and lived for four generations at Monticello.
They were the only slave family from Monticello whose members all achieved freedom.
A new rural community of former slave families replaced the old urban center.
The largest form of rebellion was the slave family.
The Hemings were the only slave family to go free from Monticello.
Jefferson scholar Joseph Ellis has called the book "the best study of a slave family ever written".
It was widely praised for its groundbreaking treatment of a slave family.
The Grimké sisters must have known about Henry's slave family; why were they silent before 1868?
