DNA From African Graves Provides Surprising Window Into Slave Trade
Chemical and DNA tests show the buried Africans came from coastal West Africa and western Central Africa, with at least 10 moved as children.
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Study Tracks Origins of 19th-Century Africans Left on Atlantic Island - Archaeology Magazine
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—An international team of researchers have analyzed teeth from 152 formerly enslaved Africans whose remains were unearthed on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena in 2007 and 2008 ahead of a construction project, according to a Live Science report. After the slave trade was outlawed in the British Empire in 1807, some 27,000 people were transported to St. Helena by the Royal Navy, which was tasked with enforcing the ban o…
Tooth enamel reveals the origins of African slaves buried on St Helena
In the mid-19th century, the remote island of St. Helena, located about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) off the southwestern coast of Africa, became a receiving point for thousands of enslaved Africans rescued from illegal slave ships by the British Royal Navy. Tragically, about 8,000 died shortly after arriving and were buried in unmarked graves in Rupert's Valley.
Thousands of Africans were buried on the island of St. Helena between 1840 and 1863. Scientific analyses of their bones and historical archives help to trace in part the tragic history of St. Helena, an island lost in the middle of the South Atlantic, about 1900 kilometres west of the African coast, at the level of Angola, a little less than half of the canton of Geneva. Yet, it was at the centre of the sordid route of the transatlantic slave tr…
More than 1,800 km from the coasts of Africa, lost in the middle of the Atlantic, the small island of St. Helena is famous for being the place of exile and death of Napoleon Bonaparte. But this remote territory also witnessed another historical event, less known but of great importance. Between 1840 and 1867, some 27,000 African slaves were released there after the British Royal Navy intercepted the slave ships, almost a hundred, in which they w…
Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from.
Little is known about the tens of thousands of liberated Africans who were buried on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena in the 19th century. But now, a new chemical and dental analysis reveals where more than 150 of these individuals spent their childhoods in Africa. About 27,000 liberated slaves ended up on St. Helena after the British Empire outlawed slave trading in 1807, with the Royal Navy enforcing the ban. St. Helena was used to dro…
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