high IQ of Ashkenazi Jews + persecuted past - a link?

[Big Papa Goat]

I don't really think that 'races' exist if that's what you're wondering abcdxxx. Nothing I said really had anything to do with that question anyway. If everyone on the slave ships were different 'races' or were taken from different populations (which they may well have been) and were subsequently reproductively isolated to a relatively large degree, the same kind of gene frequency changes would have occured.
Basically, what sethomas said.