Their features are dark, they suffered ridicule and were thought to be a mixture of Indian, European and African. Their origins of these families is very old and very murky. But genetic testing has shown they share DNA characteristics with people from the Middle East and Northern India. No written records exist to explain how they got there. Diseases have affected human evolution and diseases change to become more successful for longer periods of time.
Malaria seems to become a problem only since the advent of agriculture.
And a genetic resistance to it is relatively new. I go by and see her. We got to Brewton and told my mother what my friend had said. Oh yes, I know Bernice. She used to work for me.