How epigenetic inheritance fails to explain the Black-White health gap.

Slavery, legal segregation, and ongoing discrimination have exacted an unfathomable toll on the black population in the United States, particularly with respect to the impact on health outcomes. In recent years, various researchers and activists have suggested that racial disparities in the modern era can be attributed directly to the trauma of slavery, postulating that these unspeakable traumas led to epigenetic changes in slaves-changes that have since been passed down to subsequent generations. Investigating those claims in this paper, we comprise a review of previous literature that considers the potential for transgenerational epigenetic transmission of trauma in humans.