"Historical court records refer to two enslaved males living at Avery’s Rest, but they are not specifically named, only given a valuation as part of John Avery’s estate. Their lives and deaths are therefore only understood through the bioarchaeological analysis that Fleskes and her colleagues are doing. “The perimortem injury noted for one African descended male suggests a violent death,” the archaeologists note. Combined with additional evidence of childhood nutritional stress and a less formal method of burial, they suggest that there may have been lesser regard for this individual during his life."Thanks Breh
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DNA Analysis From Colonial Delaware Skeletons Reveals Beginning Of American Slave Trade
A new DNA study of skeletons from a farmstead on the Delaware frontier has revealed key information about the early transatlantic slave trade.
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