“When Africans stepped on those slave ships, they lost not only their freedom but their identity,” said Dr. Julie Schablitsky, MDOT SHA chief archaeologist. “This is one way archaeologists can help descendants reclaim their heritage.”
The slave quarter was discovered as part of an MDOT SHA Transportation Enhancement Program project to learn more about the history of along MD 178 in Anne Arundel County. The program is partially funded by the Federal Highway Administration.
The excavation yielded thousands of artifacts, including broken dishes, animal bones, and clay tobacco pipes. Knowing that DNA can survive on archaeological artifacts, Dr. Schablitsky sent four tobacco pipe stems from the slave quarter for DNA analysis to better understand the story of these Marylanders. Dr. Schablitsky conferred with Dr. Ripan Malhi, who leads an ancient DNA (aDNA) laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and hoped he could link the aDNA from the pipe stems with the living descendants who had genetic ties to Belvoir’s ancestors.
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8 comments:
I was wondering where I left my pot pipe.
Reparations include everybody gets a pipe.
Did they get the dna samples from the Africans in Sierra Leone that gathered up their brothers and sold them. Is that how they got the match?
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They were sold into slavery by their own brothers as you say. But their brothers were motivated by the money paid to them by the judaic-owned East India Trading Company
Comments thus far reflect the mentality of the readers.This is an incredible find.
Yes DNA is all so great except for OJ Simpson !!!!
Guess he did not have any when he got away with 2 murders
Fact !!!
i bet if they put that dna into the nation crime dna system they will be able to cross reference it to hundreds of his ancestors who are responsible for thousands of cold cases.
Gov. Northam celebrated this find, he dressed up in Blackface to show support.
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