These Fossils Changed the World. We’ll Never Know Who Found them.
Because they were slaves.
2 min readJun 4, 2020
In 1725, there were no elephants in America. Not anymore anyway. So when enslaved Africans found gigantic teeth buried in a swamp on the Stono Plantation in South Carolina, the white owners thought they must come from giants wiped out during the biblical flood. That’s what they told the English naturalist, Mark…
