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  2. John Quincy Adams Ward - Wikipedia

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    His bronze statue of The Pilgrim, a 9 feet (2.7 m) tall stylized representation of one of the Pilgrims, British immigrants to the New World led by William Bradford who left from Plymouth, England, in the cargo ship Mayflower in September 1620, sits on Pilgrim Hill in Central Park in New York City.

  3. 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

  4. List of monuments to African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Central Park, New York City, NY Meredith Bergmann: 2020 Also Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton [8] Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune: Mary McLeod Bethune: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Future To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved

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

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    On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of African Americans buried ...

  6. History of slavery in New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    It is believed that there are more than 15,000 skeletal remains of colonial New York's free and enslaved blacks. It is the country's largest and earliest burial ground for African-Americans. [41] This discovery demonstrated the large-scale importance of slavery and African Americans to New York and national history and economy.

  7. Statue unveiled at the site where Sojourner Truth gave her ...

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    A bronze statue depicting her and women's rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled in New York's Central Park in 2020, becoming the park’s first monument honoring ...

  8. Philip Reed (sculptor) - Wikipedia

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    Statues of George Washington and Andrew Jackson, and the Statue of Freedom Philip Reed , known as Philip Reid before he was emancipated ( c. 1820 – February 6, 1892), [ a ] was an African American master craftsman who worked at the foundries of self-taught sculptor Clark Mills .

  9. 'Harriet Tubman: The Journey to Freedom' to be displayed in ...

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    The sculpture, made of bronze, has previously been displayed in Peekskill, Newburgh and Haverstraw.