“The genetic record shows that it was mostly enslaved women who contributed to the present-day gene pool...

Enslaved men often died before they had a chance to have children.

Enslaved women were often raped and forced to have children.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/science/23andme-african-ancestry.html

“The 23andMe project found this general pattern, but also uncovered a startling difference in the experience of men and women between regions in the Americas.”/2

“The scientists calculated that enslaved women in th contributed 1.5 times more to the modern-day gene pool of people of African descent than enslaved men.

In the Latin Caribbean, they contributed 13 times more. In Northern South America, they contributed 17 times more.”/3

“What’s more, in the United States, European men contributed three times more to the modern-day gene pool of people of African descent than European women did. In the British Caribbean, they contributed 25 times more.”/4

“In some regions in Latin America, the government enacted programs that brought men from Europe to father children with enslaved women in order to intentionally diminish the African gene pool.”/5

“father children”= rape

“The study illustrates how much physical and sexual violence were part of slavery — and how they are still built into our society, Dr. Nelson said. It confirms the “mistreatment, discrimination, sexual abuse, and violence that has persisted for generations,” she said...”/6

Unfortunate that the writer/ @nytimes did not take the opportunity to move from “people were taken from” to just saying KIDNAPPED.

Reading this book on #HarrietTubman with my kiddo today & even they have changed their language to “kidnapped” when referring to what was done to enslaved African people. Mainstream media needs to catch up like yesterday.