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  2. African Burial Ground National Monument - Wikipedia

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    The "Negros Burial Ground" near Collect Pond, looking south (map about 1760) A 1776 map of New York and environs (labeled New York Island instead of Manhattan) the Negro Cemetery was located about 2 blocks southwest of the "Fresh Water" [i.e. Collect Pond] located in the upper left section of the map outside the city limits

  3. Peter (enslaved man) - Wikipedia

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    According to the Bostonian, he brought the photos of both Peter and Gordon from Louisiana to New York in June 1863; he describes Gordon as the "sable youth clad in variegated and torn garments" and recounts that Gordon, Peter, John (who was killed en route), and a fourth unnamed man traveled together, moving only at night, rubbed "onions and ...

  4. Harlem African Burial Ground - Wikipedia

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    The Harlem African Burial Ground was a segregated cemetery created in 1668 for the burial of enslaved and freed Africans in the Dutch colony of Harlem. It is located at what is presently 2460 Second Avenue in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City .

  5. A centuries-old cemetery for people who were enslaved is ...

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    This spot of tightly-packed houses in the city of Kingston was a cemetery for people who were enslaved as far back as 1750 and remained a burial ground until the late 1800s, when the cemetery was ...

  6. United Nations Slavery Memorial - Wikipedia

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    View of the memorial from the outside. The United Nations Slavery Memorial, officially known as The Ark of Return – The Permanent Memorial at the United Nations in Honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, is an installation at the Visitors' Plaza of the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, intended as a permanent reminder of the long-lasting effects ...

  7. How the Burial Ground of My Enslaved African Ancestors ... - AOL

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    Author, Sade Green, pictured with burial site historical marker, which reads "Today and always, we honor the enslaved Hintons of the Midway Plantation, known and unknown, buried here in unmarked ...

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  9. List of monuments to African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Manhattan, New York City, NY Alison Saar: 2007 Ray Charles memorial Ray Charles: Greenville, FL: Bradley Cooley, Brad Cooley Jr 2006 He grew up in Greenville. [5]: 16 29th Colored Regiment Monument: 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment: New Haven, CT: Ed Hamilton: 2008 Statue of Frederick Dogulass: Frederick Douglass: Harlem, New York ...