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As you know, for all the so-called transatlantic slave trade on the West coast of Africa were forcibly transported to 12.5 million people. Sent them to different countries, someone in South America, someone in the British colonies in the Caribbean sea, and someone in the current US. New genetic study found that more African Americans have Nigerian roots than indicated by historical documents. As the scientists explain, it’s all in the routes of the slave trade, which are not always directly connected the present Nigeria with the current United States. Often exported from Nigeria slaves first brought to the Caribbean, and from there to America that it is difficult to track exclusively on port logs, as did the historians.

But in Latin America, slaves were brought mostly from West-Central Africa, the current Senegal, Gambia and territories of the Gulf of Benin which was also confirmed by new genetic data. However, the genome of the Senegalese and gambians do in the DNA of modern African Americans is practically not observed, researchers explained this by the fact that immigrants from these regions usually used in the rice plantations, where they quickly died from malaria and was not able to have children.

Scientists also found that although the slave-traders tried to export and sell mainly slaves-men, the greatest contribution to the genetic code of the modern descendants of slaves made women. In the United States and some parts of the former Caribbean colonies of Britain, women’s influence in their gene pool in one and a half or even two times more influence men, and in Latin and Central America as much as 13-17 times. The fact that male slaves often died young from hard work and disease, and from women required abundant offspring to play a new workforce.