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COMMENTS: Out of Africa
There are only 103 designated National Monuments--"George Washington's birthplace…the State of Liberty…now here," announced NBC's Ron Allen. He introduced us to the Burial Ground Monument in downtown Manhattan on the site of an African cemetery that was unearthed by chance at a building site in 1991. The cemetery is estimated to have stretched over six city blocks. The remains of 400 slaves were found during that excavation 16 years ago. The Monument itself is dedicated to the entire slave population, estimated at 20,000, whose labor was forced to found the city.
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