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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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.