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Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground

the story of New York's African burial ground

by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan

130 pages · 1998

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Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of black people in Colonial times.

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