Your time as a slave will differ drastically in gameplay, namely in that you can die if you aren't careful. While you are in captivity, your main objectives are to appease your owners, make allies with your fellow servants (as opposed to enemies), and gather necessary resources (physical ability as well as materials) to escape. Your base stats can determine what sort of job your species is given, although what Dr. Monod and the other scientists observed you doing in childhood has some pull, as well.
Your father trained you to be intelligent, but many jobs will involve hard physical labor. The trick is not to overexert yourself, but remain efficient enough not to be exterminated. While childhood focused mainly on stats involving the mind, slavery is primarily development of all of your physical attributes.
Making allies is key to survival and escape. Your chimaera brethren are all soundly impressed by your knowledge, but especially your abilities to read and write. Teaching them this is integral- it will eventually allow secret communication between labor camps when the uprising becomes a reality. In the meantime, making friends who work in different areas will allow you to gain the resources for escape. However, you are bound to make some enemies- expect the will to survive to motivate some chimaeras into blackmail, manipulation and outright assault. This is your first taste of combat, elaborated upon in the next journal.