A White man's awakening

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21. "Those cemeteries are all over the South in particular. "

They are all over EVERYWHERE. North, South, East, West.

Black people could not be buried with white people. Segregated at birth, segregated in life, segregated at death.

There was a whole production in NYC to get one designated as a National Monument (better look at the National Park Service website for it it now before it is banned - a link on the below page has already been censored and removed) -

New York: African Burial Ground National Monument

For a century, from the 1690s to the 1790s, a small plot of land in Lower Manhattan became the final resting place for over 15,000 free and enslaved Africans. The burial ground was then lost under years of urban development and landfill, until workers rediscovered the burial ground in 1991 during an excavation of the land for a Federal Government office building. Excavations at the site revealed the remains of 419 Africans and over 500 individual artifacts. Considered one of the most important archeological finds of the 20th century, the African Burial Ground is of national significance because of what it can tell us about the lives of Africans and African Americans in an urban context. Both the deceased and their possessions help piece together a more complete history of New York City in the 17th and 18th centuries and what life was like for Africans in the city. The discoveries demonstrate the power of collaboration between anthropology, archaeology, and history.



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It took 15 years from discovery to fighting with GSA to finally completing and opening the Monument.