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Slave-Trade Fossils Help Uncover Shrouded History (Podcast)

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Post by Guest Sat May 02, 2015 5:31 pm

Charlie Heck, multimedia news editor at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. 

In the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade, the largest forced migration in history, more than 12 million enslaved Africans were shipped to the New World to work on plantations in eastern South America, the Caribbean and portions of the eastern United States. Spanning the 16th through 19th centuries, this "Middle Passage" period often has incomplete records. Most focus on vessel and captain names and their home ports, forgetting the millions of humans below deck..

http://www.livescience.com/50708-dna-revealing-more-about-17th-century-slave-identities.html



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