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To: bentway who wrote (279351)	3/9/2006 2:45:15 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576867

"Perhaps it was too short a time to have had a real effect, but it hardly means the slaveowners weren't trying" Sure, there were some. After all, animal husbandry had been established for millenia, they knew the basic principles if not the science behind them. For sake of argument, let's assume that they were wildly successful, greatly increasing the average strength and endurance of their slave population. All such breeding programs ended with the Civil War, say 7-8 generations ago. The slaves who were involved in such breeding programs were never a large percentage of the slave population. While it takes a great deal of time to concentrate desired characteristics, once unregulated breeding starts to occur, those characteristics get swamped in a very short time unless there is some way to keep the population isolated. Which there wasn't. So those characteristics would have blended into the generation population pretty quickly. Whether or not they could raise the average strength and endurance of the black population is very much in doubt. It just doesn't work that way. It is like the argument that Italians have lower IQs because for generations the smartest males went into the priesthood...