Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President – Crazyeyes “Robot” Michele Bachmann, Legitimate Presidential Candidate , failing to consider that parents of a child who were slaves pretty much had to be together. You know, because they were slaves