African Burial Ground National Monument

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Most New Yorkers have no idea that in the 17th and 18th centuries, hundreds of Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan. When construction workers for a new federal building found the remains of more than 400 Africans in the ear

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This monument honors the free and enslaved Africans who were buried in Lower Manhattan. 

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