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Historical Perspectives Of The African Burial Ground New York Blacks And The Diaspora, Edna G. Medford
Historical Perspectives Of The African Burial Ground New York Blacks And The Diaspora, Edna G. Medford
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The unearthing of the colonial cemetery known historically as the “Negroes Burying Ground” in Lower Manhattan in 1991 has given both scholars and the general public the opportunity to study and comprehend the broad dimensions of the African American experience. The African Burial Ground and the human remains contained within it provide a unique vantage point from which to view New York City’s Africans and their descendants over two centuries. As the final resting place for thousands of enslaved and free black people who lived and labored in the city from roughly 1627 until the end of the eighteenth century, …
The Skeletal Biology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 1), Michael L. Blakey, Lesley M. Rankin-Hill
The Skeletal Biology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 1), Michael L. Blakey, Lesley M. Rankin-Hill
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The New York African Burial Ground was “rediscovered” in 1989 in the process of preparation for the construction of a proposed 34-story federal office building by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) at 290 Broadway in New York City (Ingle et al. 1990). The site for the proposed building was once part of the African Burial Ground that extended “from Chambers Street on the south to Duane Street on the north and from Centre Street on the east to Broadway on the west” (Yamin 2000:vii). A fullscale archaeological excavation was conducted by Historic Conservation and Interpretation (HCI) and John Milner …
The Archaeology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 1), Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, Barbara A. Bianco
The Archaeology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 1), Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, Barbara A. Bianco
Arts & Sciences Books
This volume is one of three disciplinary volumes on the New York African Burial Ground Project. One volume focuses on the skeletal biological analysis of the remains recovered from the site (see Volume 1 of this series, Skeletal Biology of the New York African Burial Ground [Blakey and Rankin-Hill 2009a]). Another focuses on the documentary history, from a diasporic perspective, of Africans who lived and died in early New York (see Volume 3 of this series, Historical Perspectives of the African Burial Ground: New York Blacks and the Diaspora [Medford 2009]). The present volume, consisting of three parts, presents the …
The Skeletal Biology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 2): Burial Descriptions And Appendices, Michael L. Blakey, Lesley M. Rankin-Hill
The Skeletal Biology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 2): Burial Descriptions And Appendices, Michael L. Blakey, Lesley M. Rankin-Hill
Arts & Sciences Books
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The Archaeology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 2): Descriptions Of Burials, Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, Barbara A. Bianco
The Archaeology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 2): Descriptions Of Burials, Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, Barbara A. Bianco
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The Archaeology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 3): Appendices, Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, Barbara A. Bianco
The Archaeology Of The New York African Burial Ground (Pt. 3): Appendices, Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, Barbara A. Bianco
Arts & Sciences Books
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