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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Examines the excavation of an 18th century slave cemetery in downtown Manhattan. Scholars and leading experts conduct archaeological and forensic analyses of the remains of nearly 400 African Americans slaves who were forced to serve either the Dutch West India Company or English masters. Uses dramatic reenactments, early maps, and documents from slave traders to piece together the history of slavery in the city of New York.
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1991, preparation for the construction of a new federal office building led to a startling discovery: a skeleton. Further excavation exposed the bones of 420 men, women, and children. This area of New York had been a burial ground set aside for both free and enslaved Africans during the 1600s and 1700s. Its thought to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small. ago. Though the plantation is gone (only 243 acres from 8,888), the house and its information is great. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase", which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery.
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