African Burial Ground

So of course after last week seminar I wanted to know more about the New York African Burial ground. So this week the entire lecture was about the New York African Burial Site. At the beginning of the lecture I expected to have no reaction as a scholar.  So when I first heard about the New York African Burial Ground. I expected for into to be this great monument remembering the African slaves. I was wrong they continued to build the buildings right over the graves of millions of Africans. I felt hurt and upset after this lecture. I felt that if that was any other ethnicity grave the government would have handled it in a different way. I mean the up side to this horrible crime committed by the United States government was the remains were sent to Howard University to be looked over. Now after realize the true facts of the burial ground I am even more excited about visiting on October 1^st. The lecture was truly very interesting. It made me ask the question of how many other African burial grounds have been ignored and build right over. This lecture was great and filled with a ton of information. I also watched the Ancestral rights of return. It was very interesting because it talked about the 490 African bodies been returned to the grave. It also talked about Howard University participation in looking over the bodies.

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