A new DNA study published yesterday sheds fresh light on the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. — AFP pic
It cross-referenced these with detailed records from slave ships that transported 12.5 million men, women and children between 1515 and 1865. Some two million died on the journey. But Nigerian ancestry was over-represented in African Americans in the US, probably because of the intra-continental slave trade which brought them from the Caribbean.
Despite the fact that more than 60 per cent of enslaved people brought to the Americas were men, comparisons of genetics reveal a strong bias toward African female contributions in the modern gene pool of African heritage people across the region. In the US, slave-owners promoted marriages among slaves to ensure their children would form the next generation of the forced labour pool.
“We have some regions that are essentially showing 17 African females reproducing for every one African male. We never expected the ratio to be that high,” said Micheletti.
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