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In Search of Moses Boone’s Ancestors and Collateral Descendants

My Mount Holyoke College students and I have been fascinated, moved, and deeply distressed by the story of the African American child Moses Boone, 1902-1904. After his death at the age of 21 months, at Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC, his brain was extracted by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička to be included in theContinue reading “In Search of Moses Boone’s Ancestors and Collateral Descendants”