The Historian · Eleanor · New York
African Burial Ground National Monument
This is the site that rewrote how the city tells its own story. In 1991, construction at 290 Broadway uncovered a 6.6-acre burial ground where an estimated 15,000 free and enslaved Africans were interred in the 1600s–1700s. Slavery built colonial New York, and this ground — paved over for two centuries — is where the city finally has to admit it.
The rediscovered colonial-era cemetery of free and enslaved Africans — the city's most important corrective.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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