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The ancestry and ge...
The ancestry and geographical origins of St Helena's liberated Africans
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- Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela (author)
- Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.;Smithsonian Inst, Dept Anthropol, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Washington, DC 20560 USA.
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- Jagadeesan, Anuradha (author)
- deCODE Genet Amgen, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland.;Univ Iceland, Dept Anthropol, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland.
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- Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmin (author)
- Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Avila-Arcos, Maria C. (author)
- Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Int Lab Human Genome Res, Juriquilla 76230, Santiago De Que, Mexico.
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- Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., PhD, 1985- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Människans evolution
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- Watson, Judy (author)
- Univ Bristol, Dept Anthropol & Archaeol, Bristol BS8 1UU, England.
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- Johannesdottir, Erna (author)
- Univ Bristol, Dept Anthropol & Archaeol, Bristol BS8 1UU, England.
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- Cruz-Davalos, Diana I. (author)
- Univ Lausanne, Dept Computat Biol, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.;Swiss Inst Bioinformat, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Gopalakrishnan, Shyam (author)
- Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Moreno-Mayar, J. Victor (author)
- Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Niemann, Jonas (author)
- Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Renaud, Gabriel (author)
- Tech Univ Denmark, Dept Hlth Technol Bioinformat, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark.
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- Brown, Katharine A. Robson (author)
- Univ Bristol, Dept Anthropol & Archaeol, Bristol BS8 1UU, England.
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- Bennett, Helena (author)
- St Helena Natl Trust, Broadway House,Mainst, Jamestown, St Helena.
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- Pearson, Andrew (author)
- Environm Dimens Partnership, Cardiff CF10 4HF, Wales.
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- Helgason, Agnar (author)
- deCODE Genet Amgen, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland.
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- Gilbert, M. Thomas P. (author)
- Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.;deCODE Genet Amgen, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland.;Norwegian Univ Sci & Technol, NTNU Univ Museum, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Schroeder, Hannes (author)
- Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark;Smithsonian Inst, Dept Anthropol, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Washington, DC 20560 USA. deCODE Genet Amgen, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland.;Univ Iceland, Dept Anthropol, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland. (creator_code:org_t)
- Cell Press, 2023
- 2023
- English.
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In: American Journal of Human Genetics. - : Cell Press. - 0002-9297 .- 1537-6605. ; 110:9, s. 1590-1599
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- The island of St Helena played a crucial role in the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade. Strategically located in the middle of the South Atlantic, it served as a staging post for the Royal Navy and reception point for enslaved Africans who had been "liberated"from slave ships intercepted by the British. In total, St Helena received approximately 27,000 liberated Africans between 1840 and 1867. Written sources suggest that the majority of these individuals came from West Central Africa, but their precise origins are unknown. Here, we report the results of ancient DNA analyses that we conducted as part of a wider effort to commemorate St Helena's liberated Africans and to restore knowledge of their lives and experiences. We generated partial genomes (0.1-0.53) for 20 individuals whose remains had been recovered during archaeological excavations on the island. We compared their genomes with genotype data for over 3,000 present-day individuals from 90 populations across sub-Saharan Africa and conclude that the individuals most likely originated from different source populations within the general area between northern Angola and Gabon. We also find that the majority (17/20) of the individuals were male, supporting a well-documented sex bias in the latter phase of the transatlantic slave trade. The study expands our understanding of St Helena's liberated African community and illustrates how ancient DNA analyses can be used to investigate the origins and identities of individuals whose lives were bound up in the story of slavery and its abolition.
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- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Arkeologi (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- Archaeology (hsv//eng)
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