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Blacks Can Now Trace Their Roots to the Motherland

January 6th, 2009

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 For the first time – thanks to a new free Internet site – African-Americans can explore their African roots the way Whites have long been able to chart their migration from Europe. It took four decades for the hundreds of scholars to create the site, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database,” which allows those who are curious about their heritage to trace the routes that slave ships took after filling their hulls with tens of millions of kidnapped Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries and transporting them to the so-called New World. Get the details here.

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