Buck Breaking is a form of sexual abuse which became very popular in the Carribean. It was used by white slave owners as well as merchants. What made Buck Breaking distinct from other punishments was that only male slaves were victims. Slave owners would sometimes rape the toughest male slave in front of everyone to keep the rest in check.

According to a user at Urban dictionary, it is “the rape and sodomization of rebellious African slaves in the south of the United States.” Buck Breaking is the raping of African male slaves by white slave owners.

Buck Breaking came to life when African slaves’ rebellions had increased. It first started with the stripping of male slaves and having them flogged while other slaves watched. With time, it graduated into stripping and raping them. This act spared no male,it affected both children and men.

At one time, Buck Breaking became so successful that it grew into “sex farms” where male African slaves were bred just for the purpose of being raped by their white masters.

Buck Breaking was done to cripple the ego and strength of the male slaves.

Most slaves, after being raped,committed suicide as they could not “live with the shame.

History archives have it that Buck Breaking wasn’t only a white-master-to-African-male-slave thing, most times two or more African male slaves were forced to rape each other.

This form of sexual abuse was very popular in the Caribbean and it involved white supremacist and slave owners as well as merchants raping a male slave in front of the public to embarrass him and make him feel less of a man. Buck Breaking became very popular when slave rebellions had increased. Enslaved men were first stripped naked and flogged in front of a crowd after which they were raped by a white man to serve as a warning to other slaves.

On several occasions, enslaved men with families were forced to have sex with each other in front of their family or were raped in front of their sons.

Many enslaved men who had gone through the process of buck breaking killed themselves afterwards or run away and never returned.

For white supremacy, buck breaking either on ships or on plantations was a way of utterly embarrassing the men and showing dominance

Buck Breaking was also done in the presence of little male slaves and the male slaves’ families so as to show superiority of the white master over the male slave leader.

It was common in Jamaica. Buck Breaking crippled most little revolutions as it made slaves weak and less motivated.It broke the spirit of African male slaves and made them feel less masculine. Some records have it that sagging originated from Buck Breaking, slave masters forced male slaves to sag so as to let everyone (including other white slave masters) know they have already been raped. Then, male slaves who sagged wore no pants/boxers so their buttocks stayed out.^[1]