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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
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.
[17] [18] An interview with a man named Andrew Boone for the WPA's Slave Narratives project in the 1930 matter-of-factly described the practice: "By dis time de blood sometimes would be runnin' down dere heels. Den de next thing was a wash in salt water strong enough to hold up an egg. Slaves wus punished dat way fer runnin' away an' sich."
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 ...
"The Rehabilitation of Bethesda Terrace: The Terrace Bridge and Landscape, Central Park, New York". Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology. 18 (3): 24– 38. doi:10.2307/1494116. JSTOR 1494116. Reynolds, Donald (1994). The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols. J. Wiley.
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 ...
The history of a Massachusetts beach named after an enslaved African American is the focus of new efforts to recognize the role of slavery in the state. Enslaved man who inspired beach name and ...
The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.