Buck Breaking: The Rape and Beating of Black Enslaved Men to Make Them Compliant

How Prevalent Was This Practice in America?

William Spivey
Black History Month 365
7 min readJan 24, 2023

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“Buck breaking“ is a hoax. It was literally made up by black nationalists as a form of anti-white propaganda. It never happened. There are zero reputable sources for it and zero historical records. There’s not one genuine historian who supports it, and the only places seriously promoting it are Afrocentric pseudohistorical and revisionist websites that provide no proof and all point to each other for support. Homosexuality was illegal as well as socially and religiously abhorred in the 19th century, regardless of context. People back then generally viewed it the way we view pedophilia and child molestation today. Sodomy was a capital felony that carried a sentence of hanging — regardless of one’s race or social status or that of the victim. It is therefore ludicrous to believe white men, no matter how powerful, were raping their black male slaves either as punishment or otherwise.

Sexual relations (consensual and not, usually the latter) did occasionally occur between men and their female slaves. There is overwhelming evidence and historical records for that; but one doesn’t prove or even imply the other. There’s a massive difference between that, eg; normal heterosexual activity, and the sodomy of “buck

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