Title The African Burial Ground in New York City : memory, spirituality, and space / Andrea E. Frohne

Edition First edition Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series New York State Series New York State Series Contents Colonial prints and civic cartographies -- Ownership disputes, land surveys, and urban developments -- Burying the dead : skeletal and archaeological analyses -- Contemporary politics and grassroots efforts -- Early commemorative artworks, 1992-1995 : African-based spirituality -- Late commemorative artworks, 1998-2007 : Pan-African arts and the body politic -- Appendix: African Burial Ground final reports -- Chronology of contemporary political events Summary "'This book is of real importance. Frohne has drawn together all of the information about the African American burial ground in one place and analyzed it within the context of the history of enslaved Africans in New York"--Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, director and Distinguished Professor, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta; 'A timely addition to the scant literature about a well-known but understudied aspect of African American history in early New York City"--Graham Hodges, professor of history and Africana and Latin American studies, Colgate University"--publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Burial Ground (New York, N.Y.) SUBJECT African Burial Ground (New York, N.Y.) fast Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- New York (State) -- New York African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Antiquities Enslaved persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Memory -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Spirituality -- New York (State) -- New York Sacred space -- New York (State) -- New York African American cemeteries -- New York (State) -- New York Slave cemeteries -- New York (State) -- New York BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) African American cemeteries African Americans -- Antiquities Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Memory -- Social aspects Sacred space Slave cemeteries Enslaved persons Spirituality SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Antiquities Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015026721 ISBN 9780815653271 0815653271 0815634307 9780815634300

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