[notch898c]

I'm sure my account will be banned soon, so let me just leave one pondering here:

Does many generations of slavery and the associated genetic selection for winning survival strategies impose shifting genetic attributes to the surviving population?

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re: below [due to rate limiting]

Appreciate the honest reply.

>The death rates for slaves was 1.8%

Ah but I suspect this was after arrival in the mainland. There was a "seasoning" process in the "west indies" where as much as 50% of slaves perished before arriving to market. And I don't think that includes the long voyage across the Pacific nor between capture and initial sale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(slavery)

[robopsychology]

It's my understanding during slavery, assuming we're thinking American Black slavery here and not something else like Egyptian slavery etc, slaves were allowed to have their own families which they picked and were not selected for some sort of "superior" trait in children. The death rates for slaves was 1.8% and for whites was 1.2%, so I don't think that would have been a factor either.

I wonder if any previous human civilization did actually select slaves that were stronger to try birth stronger slaves... horrifying to think about really, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been done.

[zamnos]

> Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners to systematically force the reproduction of slaves to increase their profits.[1] It included coerced sexual relations between male slaves and women or girls, forced pregnancies of female slaves, and favoring women or young girls who could produce a relatively large number of children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_breeding_in_the_United_S...