DNA Links 42,000 Living People to Enslaved and Free African Americans Buried in Maryland

Photo caption: Catoctin Furnace in Cunningham Falls State Park, Maryland. Photo credit: Aneta Kaluzna. Article by Margaret Osborne. Smithsonian Magazine – August 4, 2023.

A first-of-its-kind DNA analysis has connected 27 free and enslaved African Americans buried in a Maryland cemetery to their 42,000 living relatives. The new research opens up a “historical gateway,” for Black Americans whose ancestors were stolen during the transatlantic slave trade, […]

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