The African Burial Ground

<p>In 1991, as crews broke ground on a new federal office building in lower Manhattan, they discovered human skeletons. It soon became clear that it was the oldest and largest African cemetery in the country. The federal government was ready to keep building, but people from all over the African diaspora were moved to treat this site with dignity, respect, and scientific excellence. When bioarchaeologist Michael Blakey took over, that's exactly what they got. But it wasn't easy.</p> <h2>Credits</h2> <p>Host: <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/alexis-j-pedrick">Alexis Pedrick</a> <br /> Senior Producer: <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/mariel-carr">Mariel Carr</a><br /> Producer: <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/rigoberto-hernandez">Rigoberto Hernandez</a><br /> Associate Producer: <a href= "https://sciencehistory.org/profile/padmini-parthasarathy">Padmini Raghunath</a><br /> Audio Engineer: <a href="https://www.podbrain.org/">Jonathan Pfeffer</a><br /> “Innate Theme” composed by <a href= "https://www.podbrain.org/">Jonathan Pfeffer</a>. Additional music by <a href="https://www.sessions.blue/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Blue Dot Sessions</a>.<br />  </p> <h2>Resource List</h2> <p><em><strong><a href= "https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/710357" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race</a>, </strong></em>by Michael Blakey</p> <p><em><strong><a href= "https://www.wm.edu/sites/1619/news/museum-internl-unesco-pub.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African Burial Ground Project: Paradigm for Cooperation?</a> </strong></em>by Michael Blakey</p> <p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j2n6z2" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><em><strong>The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space</strong></em></a>, by Andrea E. Frohne</p> <p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4676560/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><strong>The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery</strong></em></a>, d