The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space

by Andrea E Frohne

In 1991, archaeologists in lower Manhattan unearthed a stunning discovery. Buried for more than 200 years was a communal cemetery containing the remains of up to 20,000 people. At roughly 6.6 acres, the African Burial Ground is the largest and earliest known burial space of African descendants in North America. In the years that followed its discovery, citizens and activists fought tirelessly to demand respectful treatment of eighteenth-century funerary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815634013
• ISBN13: 9780815634010
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"