Scientists Compared Black American DNA to West Africa: The Result Shocked Everyone

In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda carried the last known captives from Africa to the United States. Its descendants still know exactly where their ancestors came from. For almost every other Black American family, that thread was cut, but the DNA kept its own record. In this video, we follow the scientists who set out to read it. We look at what genetic studies reveal about African American ancestry, how the results compare with the historical slave trade records, why Nigeria appears so prominently in the data, and where DNA and documents disagree. We also explore the European and Native American strands of ancestry, the medical discoveries linked to African genetic variants, and the limits of what any ancestry test can truly tell us. #BlackAmericanDNA #AfricanAmericanHistory #DNADocumentary #AncestryDNA #WestAfrica #SlaveTradeHistory #Genetics #Clotilda #ScienceDocumentary #HistoryDocumentary