Any time Black people stand up for themselves or their own, here comes somebody whining, “You can’t fight fire with fire.”
But Black people have been burning for centuries. Don’t lecture the man in the fire about the temperature of his resistance.
The Anson Street African Burial Ground Project investigates the lives of 36 18th-century individuals from Charleston, SC, using bioarchaeological & genomic methods. 18 individuals had a diversity of ancestral connections across west Africa, including one with Fulani DNA.
The Anson Street African Burial Ground Project investigates the lives of 36 18th-century individuals from Charleston, SC, using bioarchaeological & genomic methods. 18 individuals had a diversity of ancestral connections across west Africa, including one with Fulani DNA.
Strontium data suggests 13 ancestors were likely born outside Africa, representing later generations in Charleston, SC. Coosaw’s DNA reveals both African & Indigenous American ancestry, highlighting the intertwined histories of African & Native peoples in the colonial South.