Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Chapter 1. Purpose and Need for the Report

Author(s): National Park Service

Year: 2006

Summary

Chapter 1 of the draft report: Through the survival of the African Burial Ground in the heart of New York City, the past reaches across time to teach the present. The lives of those interred “outside the wall” of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York City remind the living of the ever present struggles for human freedom and dignity. Examination of the human remains reveals how resolutely the burial ground occupants resisted injustice, even when faced with the inhumanity of forced emigration and enslavement, harsh labor in a strange land, and the repression of cherished cultural and societal practices.

Cite this Record

Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Chapter 1. Purpose and Need for the Report. National Park Service. In Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. 2006 ( tDAR id: 6743) ; doi:10.6067/XCV818353V

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URL: http://www.africanburialground.gov/ABG_FinalReports.htm


Keywords

Culture
African American • Historic

Material
Human Remains

Site Name
African Burial Ground

Site Type
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1640 to 1800

Spatial Coverage

min long: -74.016; min lat: 40.696 ; max long: -73.996; max lat: 40.735 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Prepared By(s): National Park Service

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