African Burial Ground National Monument
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African Burial Ground National Monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way (Elk Street) in Lower Manhattan (New York City) preserves a site containing the remains of over 400 Africans buried during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Slavery in the New York City area was introduced by the Dutch in New Netherland in the early 1600s. Africans were imported only as slaves, but some became half-free during Dutch times, before New Amsterdam was captured by the British in 1664. Perth Amboy in...
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