This week's lecture was the best thus far. I have never been so engaged in any topic about my ancestors. Professor Mack deserves the acknowledgement for studying our ancestry when government officials have come and try to take away the bit of history we know about people of Africa descent.
From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in New York. Lost to history due to landfill and development, the grounds were rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a Federal office building.
The remains of former Africans showed a sense of unity. They looked out for one another, which is rare nowadays. I was petrified of the skeletons of a mother and her unborn child. I marched to the white house this week, and the pain upon my feet was nothing compared to the cracked skulls of women who carried hundreds of pounds on their head. I cannot begin to feel the abuse of my ancestors. Although when we think of early African existence in the Americas as slaves, but all Africans were not enslaved.
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