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A grave where skeletons of Africans were found in the cemetery in Campeche, Mexico.
Credit: T. Douglas Price

1 posted on 02/01/2006 8:48:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 02/01/2006 8:49:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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Reparations from Mexico?


3 posted on 02/01/2006 8:50:29 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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I was going to include this in the ping message, but it seemed a little too large.
Now, digging in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, archaeologists have found what they believe are the oldest remains of slaves brought from Africa to the New World. The remains date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century, not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas... The new study, which was supported by the National Science Foundation, draws on isotope ratios found in the teeth of four individuals from among 180 burials found in a multiethnic burial ground associated with the ruins of a colonial church in Campeche, Mexico, a port city on the Yucatan Peninsula.

4 posted on 02/01/2006 8:51:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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