Can someone explain population growth to me? How did Black Americans grow from 700k in 1790 to 48 million in 2024?

[JadeB]

I apologize if I offend anyone with this since I'm kind of drunk but how can a small number of people grow into nearly 50 million strong? As far as I know, the United States stopped importing African slaves in 1808, and they weren't any large scale Black immigration into the US until the 1960s and 70s. So how can a population grow into that size while avoiding incest? If a mother has 8 kids, and let's say 6 of those kids have find a partner not related to them wouldn't it be possible that they meet a partner that's a cousin of theirs? Hell, it's even worse with Jamaica since there was 800,000 Black people in 1800 and there's 3 million in 2024. Isn't that technically a smaller gene pool since its an island?

I need to put down the micheladas lmaooo

 

[DapMeUp!]

People been fukkin...

 

[JadeB]

People been fukkin...

How do you do that without fukking your cousin?

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Once there were zero Humans.

Some time after that, there was a total of 1 million people on the planet.

This mechanism is way simpler than you're imagining.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Double post.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

How do you do that without fukking your cousin?

 

[JadeB]

Once there were zero Humans.

Some time after that, there was a total of 1 million people on the planet.

This mechanism is way simpler than you're imagining.

But did humans evolve from multiple ancestors or was it one couple?

 

[TRUEST]

In a hidden history book somewhere, it was said that a flying saucer dropped a few seeds in random places on the earth. Like rain drops seduce, the seeds did likewise. And the earth responded. With new humans.

 

[invalid]

There was a lot of incest. Actually.
Lots of cousin relationships.
Still is in the rural south.
Especially if your family been in the same place for generations.

My pops people were from Lower Sip/Northern LA, and they have a thing to not date anyone in the same county or the peripheral counties. Just to avoid an uncomfortable situation. And it still happens. By that time, it's too late, m'fers be in love and just say fukk it.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

But did humans evolve from multiple ancestors or was it one couple?

Prolly not one couple.

But however we developed, there's like a billion other types of animals and plants and microorganisms that all came about some kind of way.

 

[I Really Mean It]

It’s partially attributable to the rampant sexual assault that white men committed against black women during slavery and up until the 1960s.

 

[zayk35]

Lots of variables here but this is an un-serious thread..so carry on

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

OP, you're either a foreigner or a descendent of the terrorists who did this to us.... but we were breeded like animals. These evil people forced fathers to procreate with their daughters, sons with mothers and brothers with sisters. These people did some evil stuff to black people in America.

 

[ALonelyDad]

A lot of correct answers given and this as well, it was much worse than what is taught.

It’s partially attributable to the rampant sexual assault that white men committed against black women during slavery and up until the 1960s.

 

[JadeB]

It’s partially attributable to the rampant sexual assault that white men committed against black women during slavery and up until the 1960s.

I actually forgot about that factor. True