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Book

Forgotten bones : uncovering a slave cemetery

Call Number

  • J 306.362 HUEY (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2016]

Physical Description

56 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm

Audience

Age 9-14.

Summary

Details the archaeological discovery of thirteen skeletons in upstate New York that were identified as eighteenth century slaves from the Schuyler farm.

Contents

  • Underground history : enslavement in the North
  • The African-American cemetery near Albany, New York : discovery
  • The African-American cemetery in New Hampshire : discovery
  • The New York City Burial Ground : discovery
  • What the skeletons have taught us.

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