At last, on August 18, 1590, White and ... the seat of Dare County, on Roanoke Island. “Today, the ancestry of these people is so predominately Negroid that any Indian blood is thoroughly ...

Wikimedia CommonsJohn White’s depiction of his 1590 expedition to Roanoke Island, when he discovered that the colony had disappeared. Now, recently-unearthed evidence may shed light on what ...