#115 African Burial Ground

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2010

⏱️ 19 minutes

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During the construction of a downtown federal administration building, an extraordinary find was discovered -- the remnants of a burial ground used by African slaves during the 18th Century.

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 1-15, the African burial ground.
0:04.1	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:05.7	Hey.
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0:20.0	Hello there, welcome to the Bowry Boys.
0:21.8	This is Greg Young with a solo show this week,
0:24.2	and here to talk about one of New York's newest must-see landmarks.
0:27.9	That would be the African burial ground national monument, which opened in 2007.
0:32.3	Now, I'm sure you're thinking right now.
0:34.4	Last episode, Greg, you talked all about Hart Island,
0:38.6	which was the city's potter's field with thousands of unknown graves.
0:42.9	And here you are with another burial site with tons of unknown graves.
0:47.8	Very morbid.
0:49.0	Believe it or not, this is on purpose, just to contrast the two.
0:52.8	Hart Island is on the outermost edge of the Bronx,
0:55.2	mysterious, inaccessible to the public,
0:58.2	and generally when you think about it a place of sadness and despair.
1:02.1	But the African burial ground, on the other hand,
1:04.6	right in the heart of Manhattan, in fact it's two blocks north of city hall,
1:08.6	represents one of the greatest archeological finds in modern New York history.
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