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Jan 2008

African Burial Ground - description

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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The African Burial Ground is a federally designated historic landmark and archaeological site that was used as a cemetery by free and enslaved people of African descent during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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