Separation of Mother Slavery was a time when children were routinely separated from their mothers. According to Bowlby, when a child is separated from his mother it activates attachment behavior. The three phases a child goes through when separated from their mother is Protest, Despair and Detachment. For the period of slavery, children were separated from their mothers without the ability to bond. Mothers were forced to work from sun up to sun down. Some slave owners only allowed the mother an hour a day to breastfeed half hour in the morning and half hour in the evening (Donoghue, 2008). The slave owner recognized the importance of the child receiving breast milk for mortality purposes. Infants were dying within the first twelve or
