Sentence:  He could have been anyone, the product of a gene pool that is not unique, as intertwined as the history of our coming here, as slaves, as commercial subalterns of the white man's empires, as the <WSD>fucklings</WSD> of poor white women pressed into whoredom by impoverished families, nurtured on the sour grief of despoiled purity. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A child.