African burial Ground National Monument - wikipedia African burial Ground National Monument African Burial Ground National Monument IUCN category V ( protected landscape / seascape ) Show map of Manhattan Show map of New York City Show map of New York Show map of the US Show all Location 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007 Coordinates 40 ° 42 ′ 52 '' N 74 ° 00 ′ 16 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.71444 ° N 74.00444 ° W ﻿ / 40.71444 ; - 74.00444 Coordinates : 40 ° 42 ′ 52 '' N 74 ° 00 ′ 16 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.71444 ° N 74.00444 ° W ﻿ / 40.71444 ; - 74.00444 Area 0.35 acres ( 0.14 ha ) Created February 27, 2006 ( 2006 - Feb - 27 ) Visitors 108,585 ( in 2011 ) Governing body National Park Service Website African Burial Ground National Monument U.S. National Register of Historic Places Designated April 19, 1993 Reference no. 93001597 Architect Rodney Léon U.S. National Historic Landmark Designated February 27, 2006 African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way ( Elk Street ) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway. The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries in a portion of what was the largest colonial - era cemetery for people of African descent, some free, most enslaved. Historians estimate there may have been 10,000 -- 20,000 burials in what was called the `` Negroes Burial Ground '' in the 1700s. The five to six acre site 's excavation and study was called `` the most important historic urban archeological project in the United States. '' The Burial Ground site is New York 's earliest known African - American `` cemetery '' ; studies show an estimated 15,000 African American people were buried here. The discovery highlighted the forgotten history of African slaves in colonial and federal New York City, who were integral to its development. By the American Revolutionary War, they constituted nearly a quarter of the population in the city. New York had the second - largest number of slaves in the nation after Charleston, South Carolina. Scholars and African - American civic activists joined to publicize the importance of the site and lobby for its preservation. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 and a National Monument in 2006. In 2003 Congress appropriated funds for a memorial at the site and directed redesign of the federal courthouse to allow for this. A design competition attracted more than 60 proposals for a design. The memorial was dedicated in 2007 to commemorate the role of Africans and African Americans in colonial and federal New York City, and in United States history. Several pieces of public art were also commissioned for the site. A visitor center opened in 2010 to provide interpretation of the site and African - American history in New York. Contents 1 Africans and African Americans in New York City 1.1 Pre-Revolutionary War 1.2 Post-Revolutionary War 2 Site history 2.1 `` Negros Burial Ground '' 2.2 Discovery of site and controversy 2.3 Site studies 3 Memorial 3.1 Construction and dedication 3.2 Visitor Center 4 Legacy 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Africans and African Americans in New York city Main article : History of New York City Pre-revolutionary war Slavery in the New York City area was introduced by the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland about 1626 with the arrival of Paul D'Angola, Simon Congo, Lewis Guinea, Jan Guinea, Ascento Angola, and six other men -- their names denote their place of origin : Angola, the Congo, and Guinea. Two years after their arrival three female Angolan slaves arrived. These two groups heralded the beginning of the institution of slavery in what would become New York City that would continue for two hundred years. The first slave auction in the city took place in 1655 at Pearl Street and Wall Street - then on the East River. Although the Dutch imported Africans as slaves, it was possible for some to gain freedom or `` half - freedom '' under Dutch rule. Paul D'Angola and his companions petitioned the Dutch West India Company for their freedom in 1643. Their petition was granted and they were given grants of land on which to build their own houses and farm. In the mid-17th century, farms of free blacks covered 130 acres where Washington Square Park later developed. Even slaves in full bondage were granted certain rights and afforded protections such as the prohibition against arbitrary physical punishment -- such as a whipping. Slave being burned at the stake in N.Y.C. after the 1741 slave revolt. Thirteen slaves were burned. After the English took over New Amsterdam in 1664, they changed the name to New York ( after the Duke of York ) and changed the rules governing slavery in the colony. Some 40 percent of the small population was in bondage. The new slavery rules were more harsh and restrictive than those of the Dutch, and rescinded many of the former rights and protections of slaves -- such as the prohibition against random physical punishment. In 1697 Trinity Church gained control of the burial grounds in the city and passed an ordinance excluding Africans from being buried in churchyards. When Trinity took control of the municipal burial ground, now its north graveyard, it barred Africans from interment within the bounds of the city. Through much of the 18th century, the African burying ground was beyond the northern boundary of the city, which was just beyond what is today Chambers Street. As the city population increased, so did the number of residents who held slaves. `` In 1703, 42 percent of New York 's households had slaves, much more than Philadelphia and Boston combined. '' Most slaveholding households had only a few slaves, used primarily for domestic work. By the 1740s, 20 percent of the population of New York were slaves, totaling about 2500 people. Slaves also worked as skilled artisans and craftsmen associated with shipping, construction, and other trades, as well as laborers. `` On the eve of the American Revolution, New York City had the largest number of enslaved Africans of any English colonial settlement except Charleston, South Carolina, and it had the highest proportion of slaves to Europeans of any northern settlement. '' Africans had become essential to the development of New York. Post-revolutionary war During the Revolutionary War, the British occupied New York City in the summer of 1776 and they kept control until after the war ended and they departed on Evacuation Day : November 25, 1783. As in the other rebellious American colonies, the British had offered freedom to slaves who left rebel masters ; this was done in part to cause economic damage to the rebel Americans. These individuals were listed in the Book of Negroes. This promise of freedom attracted thousands of slaves to the city who escaped to British lines. In 1781 the New York legislature offered a financial incentive to slaveholders who assigned their slaves to military service, and promised freedom at war 's end for the slaves. Pierre Toussaint was born into slavery in the French colony of Saint - Domingue ( now Haiti ) and was emancipated in New York City. By 1780 the African and African - descendant community swelled to about 10,000 in British - occupied New York City, which became the center of free blacks in North America. Among those who escaped to New York were Deborah Squash and her husband Harvey, who fled from George Washington 's plantation in Virginia. After the end of the war, according to provisions concerning property in the Treaty of Paris, the Americans demanded the return of all former slaves under British control. The British refused the American request and evacuated 3,000 freedmen with their troops in 1783 for resettlement in Nova Scotia, other British colonies, and England. Other freedmen scattered from the city to evade slave catchers. Aided by individual manumissions after war 's end, by 1790 about one - third of the blacks in the city were free. The total city population was 33,131, according to the first national census. In 1799 the state legislature passed `` An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery '' with little opposition. Similar to Pennsylvania 's law, it provided for gradual manumission of slaves. Children born to slave mothers after July 4, 1799, were considered legally free, but had to serve as indentured servants to their mother 's master, until age 28 for men and 25 for women, before gaining social freedom. Until reaching age 21, they were considered the property of the mother 's master. All slaves already in bondage before July 4, 1799, remained slaves for life, although they were reclassified as `` indentured servants. '' In 1817, the New York legislature granted freedom to all children born to slaves after July 4, 1799, with total abolition of slavery to take effect on July 4, 1827. On this date, known as Emancipation Day, more than 10,000 slaves were freed in New York State with no financial compensation to their former owners. Blacks paraded in New York City to celebrate. Under the 1777 New York constitution, all free men had to satisfy a property requirement to vote, which eliminated poorer men from voting, both blacks and whites. A new constitution in 1821 eliminated the property requirement for white men, but kept it for blacks, effectively continuing to disfranchise them. This lasted until passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870. The early history of free blacks and slaves in New York City became overshadowed by the waves of mid - to late nineteenth century immigration from Europe, which dramatically expanded the population and added to the ethnic diversity. In addition, most of the ancestors of today 's African - American population in the city arrived from the South in the Great Migration of the first half of the twentieth century. In a rapidly changing city, the early colonial and federal history of African Americans was lost. Section of the 1754 Maerschalk map showing the Collect Pond ( ' Fresh Water ' ) and the Negros Buriel Ground ; rectangle delineates area of archaeological excavation by Howard University. At least two slaves were hanged on the small island in the Collect Pond. The `` Negros Burial Ground '' near the Collect Pond, looking south ( late 1700s map ) Site history `` Negros burial Ground '' The burial ground in use for city residents in the late 1600s was located at what is now the north graveyard of Trinity Church. The public burial ground was open to all for a fee, including to enslaved Africans. Some burials of deceased slaves were made just south of the public burial ground to avoid the fee. The stockade in this area ran northeast from the present - day corner of Broadway and Chambers Street to Foley Square ; the wide street on the top right ( southwest ) is Broadway. After Trinity was established in 1697, the vestryman of the church began taking control of land in Lower Manhattan, including existing public burial grounds. When Trinity purchased the land at Wall Street and Broadway for the construction of their church, they passed a resolution on October 25, 1697 : That after the Expiration of four weeks from the dates hereof no Negro 's be buried within the bounds & Limitts of the Church Yard of Trinity Church, that is to say, in the rear of the present burying place & that no person or Negro whatsoever, do presume after the terme above Limitted to break up any ground for the burying of his Negro, as they will answer it at their perill & that this order be forthwith publish 'd. The `` rear of the present burying place '' did not include the city cemetery ( now the north churchyard ). The church petitioned for control of this burial ground, which was granted by the colony on April 22, 1703. This prohibition against the burial of those of African descent necessitated finding another area acceptable to the colonial authorities. What would become the `` Negro 's Burial ground '' was located on what was then the outskirts of the developed city, just north of present - day Chambers Street and west of the former Collect Pond. The area was part of a land grant issued to Cornelius van Borsum on behalf of his wife Sara Roelofs ( 1624 -- 1693 ) for her services as an interpreter between the city and the various Native American tribes in the area, such as the Lenape and Wappinger. The land would remain part of her estate until the late 1790s when the grade was raised with landfill in anticipation of development, and the land subdivided into building lots. Labelled on old maps as the `` Negros Burial Ground, '' the 6.6 - acre area was first recorded as being used around 1712 for the burials of enslaved and freed people of African descent. The first burials may date from the late 1690s after Trinity barred African burials in the former city cemetery. The burial ground remained in use until 1794. The area of the burial ground was in a shallow valley surrounded by low hills on the east, south and west, which enveloped the southern shore of the Collect Pond and the Little Collect. The burial ground was outside the stockade marking the northern boundary of the city. The stockade in this area ran northeast from the present - day corner of Broadway and Chambers Street to Foley Square after it had expanded northward, similar in form and function to the former stockade on Wall Street. The revelation that physicians and medical students were illegally digging up bodies for dissection from this burial ground precipitated the 1788 Doctors ' Riot. After the city closed the cemetery in 1794, the area was platted for development. The grade of the land was raised with up to 25 feet ( 7.6 metres ) of landfill at the lowest points covering the cemetery, thus preserving the burials and the original grade level. As urban development took place over the fill, the burial ground was largely forgotten. The first large - scale development on the land was the construction of the A.T. Stewart Company Store, the country 's first department store ; it opened in 1846 at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street. Several skeletons were unearthed during the commencement of building the store. The site 's earliest discovery in the early 19th century seems to have aroused little interest. According to an article in The New York Tribune, homeowner James Gemmel, who owned a house at 290 Broadway in the early 19th century, told an unnamed daughter that when the cellar for their house was being dug many human bones were found. He assumed that he had discovered a potter 's field. In 1897, when the building at 290 Broadway was demolished to make way for the R.G. Dun and Company Building, workers in excavating found a large number of human bones. Some concluded at that time that these were connected to a 1744 incident in which thirteen African Americans were burned at the stake and eighteen were hanged, however others wondered whether the bones were of Dutch or Indian origin. Many bones were taken as souvenirs by so - called `` relic hunters. '' In October 1991, the General Services Administration ( GSA ) announced the discovery ( or rediscovery ) of intact burials during an archeological survey and excavation for the construction of a new $275 million federal office building at 290 Broadway. The agency had done an environmental impact statement ( EIS ) prior to purchase of the site, but the archeological survey had predicted that human remains would not be found because of the long history of urban development in that area. Discovery of site and controversy After the discovery of the first intact burials became publicly known, the African - American community became very concerned. With the pressure of construction costs, GSA tried to continue excavation and construction on the site. The community believed it was not being sufficiently consulted and that respect was not being given to the nature of the discoveries. They believed that the burial findings required a better archeological project design for protection and study of the remains. Initially, GSA had planned full archeological retrieval of the remains as full mitigation of the effects of its construction project on the burial ground. Within the year, its teams removed the remains of 420 persons from the site, but it had become clear that the extent of the burial ground was too large to be fully excavated. In 1992, activists staged a protest at the site about GSA 's handling of the burial issue, especially when it was found that some intact burials were broken up during construction excavation at part of the site. GSA halted construction until the site could be thoroughly assessed. It provided additional funding to conduct a further archaeological excavation to reveal any other bodies on the site and to assess the remains. Located between City Hall and the federal courts, the site had symbolic value. The `` invisibility '' of Black history in New York City partially accounts for the importance of the Foley Square site `` ; activists hoped to find a means there to redress `` the injustice and the imbalance of the historic record, and to give voice to the silenced ones ''. Although archeologists studied the site and the remains for almost a dozen years, critics of the construction project believed GSA 's original archeological research design was inadequate, as it did not require a plan for the treatment of uncovered remains. In addition, the African - descendant community in New York City was not consulted in the development of the research design, nor were any archaeologists who had experience studying the African diaspora, although GSA had distributed the EIS to more than 200 state and local agencies and stakeholders, many recommended by the city. In the early stages of the project, national GSA officials and related Congressional committees directed that excavation and construction proceed. A silver pendant recovered during laboratory cleaning of the skeletal remains of burial 254 -- a child between 31⁄2 and 51⁄2 years old. Oversight of the project increased by stakeholders, such as the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and community activists. After continued protests from a coalition of community members, politicians, and scholars, in 1992 the House Subcommittee on Public Works held budget hearings for GSA in New York, at which it heard testimony from a wide variety of critics of GSA 's handling of the project and also heard from the GSA Administrator. Several changes occurred. Control of the burial site was transferred from an archeological firm in the city to the physical anthropologist Michael Blakey and his team at Howard University, a historically black college, for study at the Montague Cobb Biological Anthropology Laboratory. This ensured that African - American students would participate in studies of their ethnic ancestors ' remains. In large part due to activism by the African - American community, which lobbied the US Congress on this project, in October 1992 Congress passed and President George H.W. Bush signed a law to redesign it in order to stop construction of the pavilion portion of the site ( where the remains had been found ) and to appropriate $3 million for a memorial in that area. The federal building project was redesigned to preserve part of the archeological site for this purpose. The southern portion of the building, slated to be built on the parcel by Duane and Elk Streets, was eliminated to provide adequate room for a memorial. The burial ground was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, as the extent of the burials made it significant for both regional and national history. Given its importance, GSA proposed partial mitigation of the adverse effects to the burial ground of the construction of 290 Broadway, by undertaking programs of data analysis, curation, and education. In addition, activists lobbied for landmark status for the burial ground, and gathered 100,000 signatures to send to the Department of the Interior. The ground was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993. There was also growing support for a museum on the site to interpret African - American experience and history in New York. The discovery and long controversy received national media attention, raising interest and awareness in public archeology projects. Theresa Singleton, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution said, The media exposure has created a larger, national audience for this type of research. I 've been called by dozens of scholars and laypeople, all of them interested in African - American archaeology, all of them curious about why they do n't know more about the field. Until recently, even some black scholars considered African - American archaeology a waste of time. That 's changed now. Government and private developers learned about the need to `` include descendant communities in their salvage excavations, especially when human remains are concerned. '' The findings at the burial ground already had highlighted some of the losses of slavery, as African Americans had not been recently recognized as a major part of early New York history until then. As the journalist Edward Rothstein wrote, `` Among the scars left by the heritage of slavery, one of the greatest is an absence : where are the memorials, cemeteries, architectural structures or sturdy sanctuaries that typically provide the ground for a people 's memory ? '' Site studies Map showing excavated area and probable location of more intact burials Unearthed ( 2002 ) -- A bronze sculpture by artist Frank Bender based upon the forensic facial reconstructions of three intact skeletons exhumed at the African Burial Ground. In total, the intact remains of more than 400 men, women and children of African descent were found at the site, where they had been buried individually in wooden boxes. There were no mass burials. Nearly half were children under 12, indicating the high mortality rate of the time. Historians and anthropologists estimate that over the decades, as many as 15,000 -- 20,000 Africans were buried in Lower Manhattan. They have determined that this was the largest colonial - era cemetery for enslaved African people. It is also `` possibly the largest and earliest collection of American colonial remains of any ethnic group. '' Some of the burials included items related to African origins and burial practices. The work of excavation and study of the remains was considered the `` most important historic urban archaeological project undertaken in the United States. '' These remains stand for the estimated tens of thousands of persons at the burial ground and historically in New York, representing Africans ' `` critical '' role in `` the formation and development of this city and, by extension, the Nation. '' Because of its significance to African - American and United States history, on April 19, 1993, the site was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior. As a result of public engagement, the Howard University team identified four questions which the community hoped to have answered from studies of the remains : `` cultural background and origins of the burial population ; the cultural and biological transformations from African to African - American identities ; quality of life brought about by enslavement in the Americas ; and modes of resistance to enslavement. '' Some bodies had items buried with them, as part of personal and cultural rituals. An example is the silver pendant shown above. Some heads showed filed teeth, an African ritual decoration. Howard University did forensic studies, assessing the remains for nutrition, diseases and indicators of general living conditions for African slaves and free blacks. After the Howard University studies were completed, the remains were reinterred at the site in October 2003 in a ceremony including the `` Rites of Ancestral Return. '' The `` commemorative ceremony was inclusive and international in scope, and was organized by GSA and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture '' of the New York Public Library. This emotional memorial stretched over multiple cities including Washington D.C, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, and finally Manhattan. Thousands attended the reinterment and commemoration. Memorial Construction and dedication In consultation with stakeholders, GSA ran a design competition for the site memorial, which attracted 60 proposals. The winning memorial design by Rodney Leon in partnership with Nicole Hollant - Denis, AARRIS Architects, was chosen in June 2004. The work was completed and dedicated on October 5, 2007. The memorial design for the 25 - foot ( 7.6 m ) granite monument features a map of the Atlantic area within the `` Circle of Diaspora '' in reference to the Middle Passage, by which slaves were transported from Africa to North America. It is built of stone from South Africa and from North America, to symbolize the two worlds coming together. The Door of Return, refers to `` The Door of No Return '', a name given to slave ports set up for involvement with the age - old local institution of slavery on the coast of West Africa, from which so many people were transported after sale by their native chiefs, never to see their homeland again. The memorial is designed to reconnect ethnic African Americans to their ancestors ' origins. On February 27, 2006, President George W. Bush signed a proclamation designating the burial site as the 123rd National Monument. It was transferred to the operating jurisdiction of the National Park Service as its 390th unit. The NPS runs the visitors center, built in 2010, and arranges for various cultural exhibitions and events at the site throughout the year. The memorial was dedicated in 2007 in a ceremony presided over by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the poet Maya Angelou. As part of the dedication ceremonies, the city officially renamed Elk Street as African Burial Ground Way. Visitor center In February 2010, a visitor center for the African Burial Ground National Monument opened in the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway, which was built over part of the archaeological site. The visitor center includes a permanent exhibit, `` Reclaiming Our History, '' on the significance of the burial site. Created by Amaze Design, it features a life - sized tableau by Studio EIS depicting a dual funeral for an adult and child. Other parts of the exhibit explore the work life of Africans in early New York and connection to national history, as well as the late 20th - century community success in preserving the burial ground. The visitor center includes a 40 - person theater and a shop. Aerial view of the African Burial Ground National Monument. The mounds to the right contain the reinterred remains. Legacy In addition to earning designation of the site as a National Historic Landmark and National Monument, the discoveries of the African Burial Ground have changed thinking about early African - American history in New York and the nation. Many new books have been published on this topic. In 2005 the New - York Historical Society mounted its first exhibit ever on slavery in New York ; the planned six - month run was extended into 2007 because of its popularity. When the visitor center at the burial ground opened in 2010, Edward Rothstein wrote, A revision in popular understanding has taken place about slavery 's history in New York City, evident in several recent books and an impressive series of shows at the New - York Historical Society. In the 18th century slaves may have constituted a quarter of the New York work force, making this city one of the colonies ' largest slave - holding urban centers. See also African American portal List of buildings and structures on Broadway in Manhattan History of slavery in New York History of slavery in New Jersey 1788 Doctors ' Riot References Jump up ^ `` Listing of acreage as of December 31, 2011 ''. Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved 2012 - 03 - 18. Jump up ^ `` NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report ''. National Park Service. Retrieved 2012 - 03 - 18. Jump up ^ National Park Service ( 2010 - 07 - 09 ). `` National Register Information System ''. 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Question: who was buried at the african burial ground
Answer: more than 419 Africans