It sure has affected the black family tremendously.
Also, after the importation of slaves was banned in 1820, the population of slaves in the US actually INCREASED instead of dropping precipituously like in the West Indies. This is due to wide scale breeding.
Slave owners did not select for smart slaves. They selected for big physiques.
You can be as PC as you wish, but the reality is that this has left a giant imprint on the African-American community.
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Originally posted by CamChicks
very little.
Humanity has been evolving for millions of years.
A few generations is not enough time to have significant impact.
And what about the european genes that have breed with that african slave gene line? The white masters, and then interracial couples. Very few african-americans look like african-africans now.
Fact is, it's very possible (and common) for a 'black' person and a 'white' person to be more genetically similar to eachother than two 'blacks', or two 'whites'. Judging the total genetics of a person by their skin color is as arbitrary as judging the total genetics of a person by their height.
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