? if we want to compare the genetic legacy of slaves we can take slave societies 10000 years ago because, maybe you forgot, we can analyze modern peoples genomes.Alichu: What do you think life expectancy was on average in Imperial Rome? Next question, what do you think it was for a slave? The Imperial Roman period was on the low end 700 years before the Arab-Muslim conquest of the Levant, then North Africa and by 1000 AD well into East Africa and by 1200-1300 well into West Africa. The relevant comparison here in terms of time periods are the Transatlantic Slave trade which followed the Arab-Muslim slave trade, and coincided with it and ended while the Arab-Muslim slave trade went on.
and i'll ask again, why should the slavery in Rome not have left significant genetical changes in the roman population, but in the case of arabs there must be or should be if they didn't castrate everyone according to you. are you really saying it's because the arabs treated their slaves better than the romans?
where are the large communities of people with non-african slave ancestors in the arab world that should exist comparable to those of black africans in the americas, because the arabs didn't castrate the non-africans?
then give one of those arab-muslim sources. you are just relying on how arabs described black africans as evidence that they must have castrated them all? are you serious?Regarding the evidence, it is there if you read it. The evidence is that there was indeed systematic castration of Black Africans per the Arab-Muslim sources themselves. Well before any notions, largely based first on Anthropology in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, which shaped the European views on face first (Skeleton, facial, skull, morphology) and later the skin/hair/eye phenotypes, more of a later 19th and early 20th century, the Arab-Muslim texts themselves if you read both articles clearly in the 14th century saw the sub-Saharan Africans differently than Europeans. David Gakunzi clearly states "systematic castration".
here is what an arab scholar(al-Jahiz) wrote about slavs:
"So it happens that when among two Slavic brothers, who come from the same mother and father, even if one should be a twin of the other, one only should be castrated, so the eunuch becomes a superior worker, cleverer, more dexterous and better suited for all manners of service and manual labour. You will also note him to be more intelligent in conversation. All these become his qualities. His brother, however, retainshis inborn ignorance and stupidity so common to Slavs. He won’t understand well a foreign language. The arm of this man will be clumsy and unfit for work as it won’t be guided by knowledge. And his tongue won’t be free nor eloquent and he won’t find words easily…”