This video clip was recorded on February 24, 2015 at the African Burial Ground National Monument, Indoor Visitor Center, located on the first floor of the Ted Weiss Federal Building, at 290 Broadway in Lower Manhattan; close to Foley Square and just north of City Hall in New York, NY.\r
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A Sacred Space in Manhattan\r
From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, later known as New York. Lost to history due to landfill and development, the grounds were rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a Federal office building. Source: African Burial Ground website \r
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