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For many American descendants of slavery, "Where am I from?" is nearly impossible to answer.

We explored how some are trying to dismantle the historic barriers to their ancestry. wapo.st/descendants-se…
Newly discovered shipwrecks are unlocking stories of enslaved Africans lost in the Middle Passage wapo.st/descendants-se…
The recent discovery of America’s last known slave ship unveils a story of survival that some tried to bury wapo.st/descendants-se…
The discovery of an 18th century African burial ground in Manhattan forced scientists to confront the Eurocentric history of genetic research wapo.st/descendants-se…
Some Southern museums are changing how they frame the Civil War, unraveling the myths of the Lost Cause narrative wapo.st/descendants-se…
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