Data on bone and dental changes of the 145 individuals from East Smithfield emergency plague cemetery, St Mary Graces and St Mary Spital formed the basis of the study. This primary data was then examined by applying a forensic anthropological toolkit to estimate whether the bones were likely to have come from someone with African heritage. It found there were significantly higher proportions of people of colour and those of Black African descent in plague burials compared to non-plague burials. The report said: "There is a significantly higher proportion of people of estimated African affiliation in the plague burials compared to the nonplague burials (18.4% vs. 8.3%).

Those anthropological toolkits could use some improvement. :')

The research concluded that higher death rates amongst people of colour and those of black African descent was a result of the "devastating effects" of "premodern structural racism" in the medieval world.

There was premodern structural racism before racism was even invented! How this gels with the trendy belief that racism was a modern convention and everyone lived together peacefully in multicultural/-colored townships before the evil white man came to power, is a mystery unto itself.