African Burial Ground
Lower Manhattan · 1697
Construction crews struck intact burials in 1991, uncovering a colonial cemetery holding an estimated 15,000 free and enslaved Africans under six metres of fill.
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Construction crews struck intact burials in 1991, uncovering a colonial cemetery holding an estimated 15,000 free and enslaved Africans under six metres of fill.
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