{"id":72511,"date":"2023-08-03T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-08-03\/el-adn-de-27-esclavos-muertos-hace-siglos-identifica-a-42000-parientes-actuales-en-ee-uu.html"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:00:06","slug":"el-adn-de-27-esclavos-muertos-hace-siglos-identifica-a-42-000-parientes-actuales-en-ee-uu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/el-adn-de-27-esclavos-muertos-hace-siglos-identifica-a-42-000-parientes-actuales-en-ee-uu\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA from 27 slaves who died centuries ago identifies 42,000 current relatives in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1977, workers building a highway in the state of Maryland, in the United States, came across an abandoned cemetery in the middle of the forest. In the unmarked graves there were mainly women and children. The oldest ones dated back to the 18th century. They were the black slaves of the Catoctin furnace, a nearby iron foundry. Now, in an unprecedented study, the DNA extracted from 27 of those corpses has made it possible to know their history, specify their place of origin in Africa and find tens of thousands of current relatives, including almost 3,000 direct descendants; something impossible until now, since in that country blacks were not included in the national census until 1870.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-08-03\/el-adn-de-27-esclavos-muertos-hace-siglos-identifica-a-42000-parientes-actuales-en-ee-uu.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/ORWCNCX6KRB7XH5RNDEFW2A3GQ.jpg\" width=\"3228\" height=\"2236\" alt=\"Vista actual de la fundici\u00f3n de Catoctin, en el estado de Maryland (Estados Unidos).\"><\/img><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/GETMKXZIFNEFZEHYOA4RRNEFHU.jpg\" width=\"583\" height=\"687\" alt=\"Uno de los anuncios en prensa que ofrec\u00eda recompensa opr apresar a dos esclavos fugados.\"><\/img><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unprecedented study recovers the origins of thousands of African American families whose ancestors there were no records<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72512,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511\/revisions\/72512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}