African Burial Grounds

In the time of early America, Africans were taken away from there homes and enslaved.  They were forced to work under harsh conditions for the Dutch and then later English settlers. The African Burial Ground is located in lower Manhattan.  This is where African slaves were buried and also one of the few places where they were aloud to hold on to some of their cultural traditions.  This sacred ground was just recently discovered after being under ground for over a hundred years.  Now it is a National Monument where you can learn about the lives of the first enslaved Africans in America.

This is Eve in front of the Sankofa symbol.

There are West African symbols around the African Burial Grounds Monument.  The Sankofa symbol means "learn from the past and prepare for the future."  Eve learned a lot at the Monument by watching a historical video and then visited the exhibit and helped her friend with her Junior Ranger booklet.  She learned so many things at this exhibit she would recommend it to anyone interested in history.

Here is a map of the original boundry of the African Burial Grounds with the current streets of New York.