African Burial Ground Project: paradigm for cooperation?
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15,000 ancestors of African-America left their whole bodies to mark time for nearly 300 years. The discovery of this burial ground in downtown Manhattan materially confronted us with a decision: whether to realize our capacity to disregard these remains, sanctify them, or restore their stories to memory, whichever advocacy was the most powerful.