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African Burial Ground Memorial National Monument

Manhattan, New York

This memorial attraction maintains the memory of slavery's legacy in the creation of New York. 

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Beneath some Tribeca buildings in Lower Manhattan, and radiating out in all directions from 290 Broadway, is a burial ground, museum, and monument dedicated to the thousands of Africans and African Americans who died in the creation of the city as it stands today.

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