New York African Burial Ground History Final Report. Report and Bibliography

History report related to the archaeological work at the New York African Burial Ground. The unearthing of the colonial cemetery known historically as the “Negroes Burying Ground” in Lower Manhattan in 1991 has given both scholars and the general public the opportunity to study and comprehend the broad dimensions of the African- American experience. The African Burial Ground and the remains contained within it provide a unique vantage point from which to view New York City’s Africans and their descendants over two centuries. As the final resting place for thousands of enslaved and free black people who lived and labored in the city from roughly 1627 until the end of the eighteenth century, the cemetery offers insight into physical stressors, ethnic identity, cultural continuities and assimilation. While each burial tells an individual story, collectively, they, along with archival evidence, enable us to reconstruct a forgotten community and to reveal the centrality of a marginalized people.纽约非洲人墓地（New York African Burial Ground）考古工作相关历史报告。1991年，位于曼哈顿下城、历史上被称为“黑奴墓地（Negroes Burying Ground）”的殖民时期公墓得以发掘，这为学者与普通民众提供了研究、理解非裔美国人经历全貌的契机。该非洲人墓地及其内出土的遗骸，为我们审视两个多世纪以来纽约市非裔群体及其后裔的生活提供了独特视角。作为约1627年至18世纪末期间，在纽约市生活劳作的数千名被奴役者与自由黑人的最终安息之所，该公墓为学界了解当时的生理压力、族群认同、文化延续性与文化同化现象提供了关键切入点。尽管每一处墓葬都承载着一段个体故事，但将它们与档案史料相结合，我们得以重构一个被遗忘的社群，并展现出这一边缘化群体在历史进程中的核心地位。