Brazil Is The Second Blackest Nation In

The First Slave Came To Florida In 1526. The First One We Know By Name, Esteban, Which Means Stephen, Came A Couple Of Years Later. So, We Start With The Stories Of Juan Garrido And Esteban To Show That African-american People Have Been Here A Century Longer Than Anyone Thought, And That The Diversity We See In The African-american Community Today Has Existed Since The Beginning.

Everything My Mother And Father Did Was Designed To Put Me Where I Am.

My Father And I Made Genetics History. We Were The First African-americans And The First Father And Son Anywhere To Have Their Genomes Sequenced.

We Really Invented The Genre Of Tracing Family Trees And Going Back As Far As We Could On The Paper Trail. When The Paper Trail Disappeared, We Used Dna Analysis. The Technology Was Just Being Invented That Allowed You To Trace Ancestry Through Dna.

It's Fascinating How Life Works.