Enslaved people were kidnapped from all across Africa, rare look at DNA from colonial cemetery reveals

In 2013, South Carolinians made the unexpected discovery of a Colonial-era cemetery holding the remains of enslaved people. Now, a genetic analysis of some of these individuals reveals their origins.

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