African Burial Ground National Monument

In Lower Manhattan, this burial ground preserves part of the largest known colonial-era cemetery for people of African descent in New York. Created in the late 17th and early 18th centuries after Black burials were barred from churchyards within the settled town, it served both enslaved and free Africans beyond the city’s northern edge. More than 419 sets of remains were recovered here, and historians believe as many as 10,000 to 20,000 people were buried at the site. Rediscovered during federal construction, it transformed understanding of slavery’s scale in colonial and early federal New York and became a major place of remembrance and interpretation.

New York, New York · United States