South Carolina
Tracing Charleston’s history of slavery, from a burial ground to a DNA swab
CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Edward Lee heard about a project collecting DNA from Black residents like him in Charleston, South Carolina, he had reason to be skeptical. Knowing that African Americans have been exploited before financially and in medical e
And they came to him with a unique proposal: With DNA extracted from 36 enslaved people whose bones had been unearthed by a construction crew downtown, researchers were now searching for their living descendants.
But he knew the people behind the Ans... [5952 chars]
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