The African Burial Grounds

Unearthed by
Frank Bender -
based on facial
Wikimedia Commons reconstruction of
three intact
skeletons found

The African Burial Ground dates from the mid 1630s to

1795
It contains upwards of 15,000 intact remains of enslaved
and free Africans who lived and worked in colonial New
York

Civic engagement led to the ancestral remains’

reinterment within the original site of rediscovery.

This silver
pendant belonged
to a child
between 3.5 and
4.5 years old