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Andrea Frohne, on New York City's African Burial Ground
In this episode of "Sites and Sounds," Andrea Frohne talks about the African burial ground in lower Manhattan, where the remains of perhaps 20,000 Africans, slave and free, buried in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were uncovered in the late twentieth.
We don’t often associate new York with slavery, but the size of this graveyard, the oldest and largest excavated site in North America, reminds us of the major role it played in building the city, just as it did for the country at large.
Frohne, Associate Professor of African Art History at Ohio University, is the author of The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space.
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In this episode of "Sites and Sounds," Andrea Frohne talks about the African burial ground in lower Manhattan, where the remains of perhaps 20,000 Africans, slave and free, buried in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were uncovered in the late twentieth.
We don’t often associate new York with slavery, but the size of this graveyard, the oldest and largest excavated site in North America, reminds us of the major role it played in building the city, just as it did for the country at large.
Frohne, Associate Professor of African Art History at Ohio University, is the author of The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space.