The Implausibility of cloning slaves.

In Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters, he brings up the possibility of human cloning. Cloning technology has become more advanced in the past few years. Ever since Dolly the sheep, researchers have been trying to figure out the secret to possibly cloning humans. I find it highly improbable to believe that in the year 2016, there could have been a plethora of cloned slaves in the south. First and foremost, scientists weren’t able to properly clone primates until 2018 when a research team in China pulled it off. If we weren’t able to have cloned primates until 2018, there is no way that we would have been able to have cloned humans in 2016. In “Human Cloning : Four Fallacies and their Legal Consequences,” Kerry Lynn Macintosh lays out the problems in the science of cloning humans. There is evidence that the type of cloning that the south would be looking for would be impossible, especially for the time. There is strong evidence that if a human is cloned, they will still be a different person than the person they share exact DNA with. They would have many of the same psychological make-up, but they would still be two completely different people.

Macintosh, Kerry Lynn. Human Cloning : Four Fallacies and Their Legal Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Winters Ben H. 2016. Underground Airlines First ed. New York: Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company.