>>18091023
>Most slaves were originally sold into the slave trade because their tribe got conquered by a different tribe.
False. Many people got captured outside of the context of war. That's why many who were shipped abroad were not in a military occupation.

>>18091106
And a fuckton of those captured weren't from a different "tribe".

>>18091023
>You would assume the tribe doing the conquering was smarter in some way if they were able to conquer the other

Accident of geography. The conquering tribes were closer to the coast and thus had the advantage of trade with Europeans, especially guns.

>>18091023
Conquering doesn't mean smarter. It usually means more violent or having more neighbors with guns. The slave trade was fueled by European demand, not African IQ.

You think being starved, tortured, and bred like animals for generations is some kind of eugenics program? It's the exact opposite. It's systemic trauma and oppression, not a brain boost.

Modern IQ gaps are 100% explained by poverty, lead poisoning, shit schools, and ongoing discrimination. Not your retarded warrior gene theory.

>>18091129
buying guns is smart
>>18091133
>It's systemic trauma and oppression, not a brain boost.
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>Modern IQ gaps are 100% explained by poverty, lead poisoning, shit schools, and ongoing discrimination.
these are all fake news

>>18091106
>That's why many who were shipped abroad were not in a military occupation.

You don't grasp the reality of precolonial African warfare.
In many tribes, all the adult men were warriors.
And even beyond that, it's not like only enemy warriors were captured and enslaved.
When a village was captured by an enemy tribe, its entire population was enslaved.

Precolonial African warfare was inherently genocidal by nature.
Defeated enemies were either killed in combat or enslaved after the fight, no one was left alone by the victors.
Losing tribes simply ceased to exist.

>>18091356
>In many tribes, all the adult men were warriors.
Extremely vague. Why try to use weasel words like that?

>Precolonial African warfare was inherently genocidal by nature.
Not really? Why do you push that line or at least think Africa is exceptional for some reason?

>Defeated enemies were either killed in combat or enslaved after the fight, no one was left alone by the victors.
>Losing tribes simply ceased to exist.
Lol

>>18091023
Mungo Park covered in his book about the search for Timbuktu. Debtors, criminals, pow, and kidnap victims. Half could not operate within tribal law. No wonder descendants are criminals.

>>18091133
>Modern IQ gaps are 100% explained by poverty, lead poisoning, shit schools, and ongoing discrimination.
Then why are there IQ gaps in Canada and Britain as well?

>>18091385
African warfare was exceptional because there were no laws, norms, ethics, or cultural expectations restraining the utter slaughter and domination of conquered peoples. In most of the rest of the world enslaving, raping, cannibalizing and murdering all defeated men, women and children was generally frowned upon (although it occasionally occured), but in subsaharan Africa morality didn't exist, it was truly a Hobbesian state of nature.

ye

>>18093304
>there were no laws, norms, ethics, or cultural expectations restraining the utter slaughter and domination of conquered peoples
Its Interesting how you can just make shit up and post it and no one will stop you

>>18091023
There are some genetic differences between african americans and modern day africans. The frequency of the ABCC11 gene determines how strong your body odor is (and also if you have wet or dry ear wax). East asians are the least smelly while african americans are the smelliest, smellier than africans.

>>18091133
>Modern IQ gaps are 100% explained by poverty, lead poisoning, shit schools, and ongoing discrimination
That's wrong on so many levels. IQ studies take these into account. Schooling doesn't really increase IQ by any significant amount. The only clear marker for difference in IQ is genetics.