Journal of Genetics and DNA Research

Epigenetic modifications, clinical symptoms, and evidence of resilience associated with the trauma and stress of enslavement and institutionalized racism

Abstract

Fatimah Jackson

The large-scale capture, forcible kidnapping, and subsequent forced labor associated with the historic enslavement of Africans in the Americas exerted tremendous stress on their biologies. These stresses provided the most important substrate for selection in New World African populations.