Scientist Carter Clinton seeks viable DNA at the African Burial Ground National Monument. The cemetery, located under Manhattan’s civic center, holds the remains of more than 15,000 free and enslaved Africans from the 17th and 18th centuries.
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For nearly a decade the National Geographic Explorer has studied grave sites to learn why African Americans disproportionately suffer from ailments such as cardiac disease and asthma. And the soil of this New York cemetery—the oldest and largest excavated site of its kind in the country—may still contain extractable DNA. Clinton hopes it will provide clues about the lives and deaths of these individuals, and by extension the ancestral roots of millions of African Americans alive today.
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