So this article, while interesting, seems like it could have used the expertise of a greater number of historians of the slave trade and slavery to clarfify and more importantly, complicate certain aspects of this history. nytimes.com/2020/07/23/sci… The shock at Nigerian ancestry proliferating among US descendants of enslaved people until consulting an unnamed historian about the fact of previous stops in the Caribbean in the trade before reaching what became the mainland US? Slave trade 101 guys.