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Enslaved African Americans in Maryland Linked to 42,000 Living Relatives

Por: The New York Times Science August 03, 2023

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A construction team working on a highway expansion in Maryland in 1979 discovered human remains on the grounds of an 18th-century ironworks. Eventually, archaeologists uncovered 35 graves in a cemetery where enslaved people had been buried.In the first effort of its kind, researchers now . Almost 3,000 of them are so closely related that some people might be direct descendants.Henry Louis Gates Jr., a historian at Harvard University and an... + full article



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