A new article from The Guardian has claimed, based on research by Dr Rebecca Redfern, that many plague victims in medieval London were black Africans and that this is because of racism. However, a look at the sources justifying this claim reveals it cannot stand up to scrutiny.

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Sources:
Redfern, Rebecca & Hefner, Joe. (2019). “Officially absent but actually present”.

Klunk, J, Duggan, AT, Redfern, R, et al. Genetic resiliency and the Black Death: No apparent loss of mitogenomic diversity due to the Black Death in medieval London and Denmark. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2019; 169: 240–252.