The African Burial Ground in New York City : memory, spirituality, and space / Andrea E. Frohne.

The African Burial Ground in New York City : memory, spirituality, and space / Andrea E. Frohne.

"'This book is of real importance. Frohne has drawn together all of the information about the African American burial ground in one place and analyzed it within the context of the history of enslaved Africans in New York"--Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, director and Distinguished Professor,...

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Main Author: Frohne, Andrea E., 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:New York State Series.
Subjects:
African Burial Ground (New York, N.Y.)
Excavations (Archaeology) > New York (State) > New York.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Antiquities.
Enslaved persons > New York (State) > New York > History.
Memory > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Spirituality > New York (State) > New York.
Sacred space > New York (State) > New York.
African American cemeteries > New York (State) > New York.
Slave cemeteries > New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Antiquities.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Colonial prints and civic cartographies
  • Ownership disputes, land surveys, and urban developments
  • Burying the dead : skeletal and archaeological analyses
  • Contemporary politics and grassroots efforts
  • Early commemorative artworks, 1992-1995 : African-based spirituality
  • Late commemorative artworks, 1998-2007 : Pan-African arts and the body politic
  • Appendix: African Burial Ground final reports
  • Chronology of contemporary political events.

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