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Category : Africans
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Memorialization of The African Burial Ground
Author: Peggy King JordePublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
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Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground
Author: Final Recommendations to the Administrator, General Services Administration and the United States Congress on the Memorialization of the African Burial Ground
Author: Reinterment at the African Burial Ground
Author: Laura Elizabeth RockePublisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In 1991, during ground clearing for the construction of two Federal Buildings in lower Manhattan, human skeletal remains were unearthed. The remains belonged to 18th century African New Yorkers who used the land, known historically as the Negros Burial Ground, to bury their dead during the majority of the 1700s. As a result of this discovery, a more than decade long political and cultural struggle ensued between the General Services Administration (the federal agency in charge of the construction project), scientists and scholars, and a community of activists who advocated on behalf of the remains. The activists sought reinterment of the remains as well as memorialization of the burial ground, now referred to as the African Burial Ground, and the 18th century individuals buried there. A team of archaeologists studied the four hundred nineteen sets of remains exhumed from the site, which is estimated to contain approximately twenty thousand burials. The goal of their research was to better understand how these 18th century African New Yorkers lived and their role in the development of colonial New York. Upon completion of this research, the remains were reinterred on October 4, 2003, at the site from where they had been disinterred, where the New York African Burial Ground National Monument would eventually be. This thesis examines the process and significance surrounding reinterment of the remains: the decision to do so and who was involved in and responsible for that decision, as well as the discussions, negotiations, and planning process that eventually culminated in the five day long event to reinter and memorialize the men, women, and children originally buried at this site over two-hundred years prior. It argues that reinterment was advocated for and undertaken by activists due to the shared set of ideas among them regarding the significance of the remains and the consequent significance of reinterring and memorializing them.
The African Burial Ground in New York City
Author: Andrea E. FrohnePublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815634307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In 1991, archaeologists in lower Manhattan unearthed a stunning discovery. Buried for more than 200 years was a communal cemetery containing the remains of up to 20,000 people. At roughly 6.6 acres, the African Burial Ground is the largest and earliest known burial space of African descendants in North America. In the years that followed its discovery, citizens and activists fought tirelessly to demand respectful treatment of eighteenth-century funerary remains and sacred ancestors. After more than a decade of political battle—on local and national levels—and scientific research at Howard University, the remains were eventually reburied on the site in 2003. Capturing the varied perspectives and the emotional tenor of the time, Frohne narrates the story of the African Burial Ground and the controversies surrounding urban commemoration. She analyzes both its colonial and contemporary representations, drawing on colonial era maps, prints, and land surveys to illuminate the forgotten and hidden visual histories of a mostly enslaved population buried in the African Burial Ground. Tracing the history and identity of the area from a forgotten site to a contested and negotiated space, Frohne situates the burial ground within the context of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century race relations in New York City to reveal its enduring presence as a spiritual place.
The New York African Burial Ground
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ISBN: 9780882582597
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
African Burial Ground National Monument Ethnographic Overview and Assessment
Author: Dána-Ain DavisPublisher:
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Category : African American cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
African Burial Ground
Author: African Burial Ground, National Monument, New York, 2010
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence
Author: Joyce HansenPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805050127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
In September 1991, archaeologists began to turn up graves and bodies in lower Manhattan. Well-known maps had shown that this was the site of New York's first burial ground for slaves and free blacks. "Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence" uses the rediscovery of the burial grounds as a window on a fascinating side of colonial history and as an introduction to the careful science that is uncovering all of the secrets of the past.