How 15,000 enslaved Africans buried under New York City revolutionized DNA ancestry tests

In 1991, construction workers found the remains of more than 15,000 free and enslaved Africans at a burial site under Lower Manhattan. It took protests by activists, scholars, politicians and black New Yorkers to halt construction on the government building and contract an African American anthropologist to oversee the exhumation of the remains of 419 men, women and children. Washington Post Journalist Nicole Ellis explains how the quest to find where these people came from paved the way for commercial DNA ancestry tests. Watch the series: Descendants: The legacy of American s...

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