New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 7. Demographic Overview of the African Burial Ground and Colonial Africans of New York

Author(s): Lesley M. Rankin-Hill; Michael L. Blakey; Jean Howson; E. Brown; Selwyn H. H. Carrington; K. Shujaa

Year: 2004

Summary

The origins of Africans in colonial New York, and some conditions encountered upon their arrival, have been explored in the two preceding chapters. The objective of the current chapter is to reconstruct who these diverse Africans became as a single population/community (that used a common cemetery) once in New York City. This chapter serves as both an historical demographic (based on documents) and paleodemographic (based on skeletal assessments) overview of the structure of the African population of colonial New York.

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New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 7. Demographic Overview of the African Burial Ground and Colonial Africans of New York. Lesley M. Rankin-Hill, Michael L. Blakey, Jean Howson, E. Brown, Selwyn H. H. Carrington, K. Shujaa. In New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Pp. 266-304. 2004 ( tDAR id: 365179) ; doi:10.6067/XCV84X56HF

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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: -74.022; min lat: 40.698 ; max long: -73.989; max lat: 40.732 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Prepared By(s): National Park Serivce

Submitted To(s): General Services Administration Northeastern and Caribbean Region

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