The African Burial Ground: Black Archaeology in Early NYC

Archeological anthropologist Patty Hamrick teaches you about the African-American community who called New Amsterdam home long before it became New York. Using new discoveries about the lives of this diaspora community unearthed at the African Burial Ground, Hamrick will discuss the history and legacy of NYC's first black community and the part it played in 18th century slave revolts, the Doctor's Riot and the Revolutionary War.