Author : Joyce Hansen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805050127
In September 1991, archaeologists began to turn up graves and bodies in lower Manhattan. Well-known maps had shown that this was the site of New York's first burial ground for slaves and free blacks. "Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence" uses the rediscovery of the burial grounds as a window on a fascinating side of colonial history and as an introduction to the careful science that is uncovering all of the secrets of the past.