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Bodies of Evidence
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Slave grave
Did you know about the New York slaves?
In 1991, building workers excavating a site for an office block in Manhattan,
New York, discovered the remains of hundreds of bodies. The bones, together
with other items, indicated that this was an 18th-century burial ground
for slaves. Most were African- Americans, a large proportion children,
and many of the adults had died in their 30s. Their ill-treatment was
clear from the remains: many had signs of arthritis, rickets, syphilis
or tuberculosis, and the poor state of their teeth indicated that they
had suffered from malnutrition.
Americans were shocked at the revelation that New York had been part
of the cruel slave trade, which most people believed had been confined
to the southern states. Plans to honour the slaves by burying them in
an African Burial Ground have been deferred in the wake of the destruction
of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.
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