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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: American Spirit who wrote (279274)3/9/2006 12:34:10 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1576881
 
"Under the conditions which slaves lived, only the most strong survived. Others were literally worked to death, or perished during ocean voyages or from poor health care"

I'll grant you the bit about the slave ships. But the rest is nonsense. For one, breeding program or not, there wasn't enough generations to have a significant effect. And that assumes the slaveholders had enough control over their breeding. Two, while their lives weren't nice, working a slave to death doesn't make sense. They cost and were worth money, so killing them would have been dumb. Most slaveholders only had a slave or two, replacing them on a regular basis like you suggest happened would have bankrupted most slaveholders.
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