Sex in Black, White and Mulatto Sex is part of human nature. It always has been; it always will be. When people think of sex, normally it is as a pleasure. Unfortunately, for slaves in antebellum America, this was not always the case. Rape, slave breeding, married slave couples being split up at slave auctions were all forms of sexual tensions found on nineteenth-century American plantations. Their owners did not often treat slaves as people, but instead as property. If they were treated as people, then the slaves could be seen as equal to their master. However, as property, sl