Researchers have connected the DNA from enslaved individuals buried in a Maryland village to nearly 42,000 present-day descendants. In 1979, workers expanding a Maryland highway came across a forgotten cemetery containing the bodies of enslaved people from the 1800s. They lived in what is known as Catoctin Furnace, a former ironworking village. About 30 bodies …
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The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. The rampant spread of disease was common in the days before penicillin and other “wonder drugs” of the twentieth century. Our ancestors lived in fear of epidemics, and many of them died as the result of simple diseases that could be …
(+) Epidemics
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. The rampant spread of disease was common in the days before penicillin and other “wonder drugs” of the twentieth century. Our ancestors lived in fear of epidemics, and many of them died as the result of simple diseases that could be …