I think literal chattel slaves knew they were pretty bad off but they still had kids.

(If you implied sarcasm I apologize, it's extremely hard to tell when dealing with HN posters)

I encourage you to do some research about this. I did and I wish I had not.

edit: you know what, I'm not going into this here, I'll leave a link with some actual slave narratives about family and children. https://americainclass.org/family-life-of-the-enslaved/