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Blacks and Whites: An Early Cooperative Spirit. 1988. Archeology (November/December).

Con Edison Crew Unearths Bones Near Early Black Graveyard. 1993. The New York Times Company (February 14, 1993), Section 1 (Column 3), p. 43.

Allen, Arthur. 2000. "Flesh and blood and DNA: A geneticist sparks outrage with a project to help African-Americans trace their family roots" [Web Page]. Accessed 15 May 2000. Available at http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/05/12/roots/index.html

American Anthropological Association. 1995. "African Burial Ground Phenomena (Three Sessions)." American Anthropological Association (Washington, DC, 17 Nov).

------. 1993. Anthropologists at Work: Careers Making a Difference produced by Dawn Bodo and Elizabeth Briody. directed by Gheri Arnold. Arlington, Va.: EXPOSE: Communications Network. 1 videocassette (36 min.).

Apuzzo, Robert. 1992. New York City's Buried Past : a Guide to Excavated New York City's Revolutionary War Artifacts, 1776-1783 . New York: R & L Publishing.

Archaeological Institute of America . 1993. Unearthing the Slave Trade produced by Tom Naughton and Nicolas Valcour. directed by Joe Wiecha. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

Barbour, Warren D. 1994. "Musings on a Dream Deferred." Federal Archeology Report 7((Spring)):12-13.

Blakey, Michael. 1990. "American Nationality and Ethnicity in the Depicted Past." Pp. 38-48 in Politics of the Past, Editors Peter Gathercole and David Lowenthal. Boston: Unwin Hyman.

Blakey, Michael L. and R. C. Vargui. 1990. "A Comparison of Dental Enamel Defects in Christian and Meroitic Populations From Geili, Central Sudan." International Journal of Anthropology 5(3).

------. 1994. "Psychophysiological Stress and Disorders of Industrial Society: A Critical Theoretical Formulation for Biocultural Research." Diagnosing America : Anthropology and Public Engagement, Editor Shepard Forman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Blakey, Michael L., Teresa E. Leslie, and Joseph P. Reidy. 1994. "Frequency and Chronological Distribution of Dental Enamel Hypoplasia in Enslaved African Americans: A Test of the Weaning Hypothesis." American Journal of Physical Anthropology .

------, Scientific Director. 1996. The Study of New York City's African Burial Ground. Research File: OPEI. Howard University.

------. 1999. "Scientific Racism and the Biological Concept of Race." Literature and Psychology 45(1/2):29-43.

-------. 1998. "The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties." Transforming Anthropology 7(1):53-58.

------. 1998. Progress Report of the African Burial Ground Project (November 1, 1997-February 28, 1998). OPEI

------Recommendations to the Reburial Sub-Committee Federal Steering Committee of the African Burial Ground, New York City.

Bogart, Michele H. 1999. "Public Space and Public Memory in New York's City Hall
Park ." Journal of Urban History 25(2):226-57.

Bower, Beth A. 1991. "Material Culture in Boston: the Black Experience." Pp. 55-63 in The Archaeology of Inequality, Edited by Randall H. McGuire and Robert Paynter. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell.

Bradley, Michael R. 1989. "The Role of the Black Church in the Colonial Slave Society." Articles on American Slavery: Religion and Slavery, vol. 16, Editor Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Press.

Bruinius, Harry. 17 Jun 1999. "African burial ground under New York streets" [Web Page]. Accessed 13 Apr 2000. Available at http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/06/17/fp16s1-csm.shtml

Cantwell, Anne-Marie and Diana Wall. 1992. Archaeology in New York City. New York: Professional Archaeologists of New York City.

Carey, Meredith B. 1994. The Formation of Social Beliefs: The Yellow Fever Epidemics in New York City. African Burial Ground Project. OPEI

Childs, St. Julien Ravenel. 1934. "Kitchen Physick: Medical and Surgical Care of Slaves on an Eighteenth-Century Rice Plantation." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 20(4):549-54.

City of New York Parks and Recreation. 1997. Mayor Giuliani, Senator Moynihan and Commissioner Stern Break Ground at $18 Million Foley Square Reconstruction. New York City.

------. 1995. The Reconstruction of Foley Square Borough of Manhattan [Map]. 1''=80'. New York City: City of New York Parks and Recreation. OPEI

Coughlin, Ellen. 1996. "Sankofa: The African Burial Ground Project-- A Dialogue Between Past & Present." Howard Magazine (Fall):8-15.

Crist, C. M. and Michael Parrington. n.d. African and African American Cemetery Archaeology in the New World [A Bibliography]. OPEI

Davis, Thomas J. 1989. "These Enemies of Their Own Household: A Note on the Troublesome Slave Population in Eighteenth Century New York City." Pp. 17-31 in Articles on American Slavery: Slavery in the North and West, vol. 5, Editor Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Press.

Duane, Anderson. 1996. "Reburial: Is It Reasonable?" Archeology (September/October).

Dunlap, David W. 26 Feb 1993. "African Burial Ground Made Historic Site." New York Times (New York), B (1), p. 3.

Epperson, Terrence W. 1996. "The Politics of "Race" and Cultural Identity at the African Burial Ground Excavations, New York City." World Archaeological Bulletin 7:108-17.

------. 1999. "Archaeologies of Race, Repression, and Resistance in New York City." Pp. 81-110 in Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Editors Mark P. Leone and Potter B. Parker. New York: Plenum Press.

Fleming, John E. F. 1994. "African-American Museums, History, and the American Ideal." The Journal of American History 81(3):1020-1026.

Foote, Thelma W. "Crossroads or Settlement: The Black Freedmen's Community in Historic Greenwich Village, 1644-1855."

Frankel, Bruce. 15 Sep 1992. "Black Cemetery in NYC New Key to Colonial Times." USA TODAY, NEWS, p. 10A.

Garman, James C. 1994. "Viewing the Color Line Through the Material Culture of Death." Historical Archaeology 28(3):74-93.

Garnett, Carla, NIH Record. 22 Apr 1997. "The Dead Do Tell Tales: Colonial-Era Burial Project Provides Current Research Cohort " [Web Page]. Accessed 13 Apr 2000. Available at http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/04_22_97/story01.htm

Goodnight, G. T. 1999. "Messrs. Dinkins, Rangel, and Savage in Colloquy on the on the African Burial Ground: A Companion Reading." Western Journal of Communication 63(4):511-25.

Handler, Jerome S. 1994. "Determining African Birth From Skeletal Remains: A Note on Tooth Mutilation." Historical Archaeology 28(3):113-19.

------. 1996. "A Prone Burial From a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies: Possible Evidence for an African-Type Witch or Other Negatively Viewed Person." Historical Archaeology 30(3):76-86.

Hansen, Joyce and Gary McGowan. 1997. Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: the Story of New York's African Burial Ground. New York: Henry Holt.

Harrington, Spencer P. M. 1993. "Bones and Bureaucrats: New York's Great Cemetery Imbroglio." Archaeology 16(2):28-38.

Hodges, Graham R. 1992. "Muscle and Pluck." Seaport (Spring):32-37.

IDI Construction Co., ABG Interpretive Center Design Team. 2000. "African Burial Ground: OPEI Photographs-- Tour Images (Group B 1-11)" [Web Page]. Accessed 1 Jun 2000. Available at http://ww w.duke.edu/~ldbaker/ABG/images/abg-050300OPEIpics01-11.pdf

IDI Construction Co., ABG Interpretive Center Design Team. 2000. "African Burial Ground: OPEI Photographs-- Tour Images (Group B 12-16)" [Web Page]. Accessed 1 Jun 2000. Available at http://ww w.duke.edu/~ldbaker/ABG/images/abg-050300OPEIpics12-16.pdf

Jaffe, Steven H. 1995. "This Internal Traffic: New York and the Illegal Slave Trade." Seaport (Fall & Winter):36-37.

Johnson, Kirk A. 1996. "The History in "Dem Bones"." Heart & Soul (February-March):74-81.

Kellan, Ann. 1998. "Bones reveal little-known tale of New York slaves" CNN Interactive. (Feb 10). [Web Page] Accessed 3 Aug 2001. Available at http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9802/12/t_t/burial.ground/

Kruger-Kahloula, Angelika. 1993. "Homage and Hegemony: African American Grave Inscriptions." Slavery in the Americas, Editor Wolfgang Binder. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.

------. 1994. "On the Wrong Side of the Fence: Racial Segregation in American Cemeteries." History and Memory in African-American Culture, Editors Genevieve Fabre and Robert O'Meally. New York: Oxford University Press.

La Roche, Cheryl J. 1994. "Glass Beads Excavated From the African Burial Ground, New York City: Conservation, Analysis and Interpretation." State University of New York.

LaRoche, Cheryl J. 1994. "Beads From the African Burial Ground, New York City: A Preliminary Assessment." Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 6:3-20.

Mack, Mark E., Cassandra Hill, and Michael L. Blakey. 1996. Preliminary Results of the New African Burial Ground Skeletal Population (Januarary 17). Research File: OPEI. Washington, DC: Howard University

McCall, John C. 1996. "Portrait of a Brave Women." American Anthropologist 98(1):127-35.

McGowan, Gary S. and Cheryl J. LaRoche. 1996. "The Ethical Dilemma Facing Conservation." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 35(1996):109-21.

McGowan, Gary S. and Cheryl J. LaRoche. 1996. "The Ethical Dilemma Facing Conservation." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 35(1996):109-21.

Medford, Edna Greene. 1996. The African Burial Ground in Historical Perspective. Howard University, Washington, D.C.: Paper on File at Office of Public Education and Information for the African Burial Ground Project, New York City.

Medford, Edna Green and Emilyn L. Brown. 2000. "A Constant Source of Irritation": Enslaved Women's Resistance in the City of New York. HUArchivesNet: The Electronic Journal of the Morland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University. [Web Page] Accessed 2 August 2001. Available at http://www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu/0008huarnet/August.htm

Moore, Christopher. 1995. "Land of the Blacks: Among New York's Earliest Land Owners Was a Group of Slaves Freed by the Dutch." Seaport (Fall-Winter).

Morgan, Jennifer L. 1997. "'Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder': Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology 1500-1770." William and Mary Quarterly (3rd Series) 54(1):167-92.

 

Neville, Christopher P. 1994. "Overlooking the Collect: Between Topography and Memory in the Landscape of Lower Manhattan." Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

OPEI. 2000. Documentary Films on the NY African Burial Ground [Hand Out]. New York.

Parrington, Michael. 1994. "African American Burial Grounds: A Review of Recent Research." Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (Vancouver, B.C., Jul).

Parrington, Michael and Janet Wideman. 1986. "Acculturation in an Urban Setting: The Archaeology of a Black Philadelphia Cemetery." Expedition: The University Museum Magazine Archaeology/Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 28(1):55-62.

Paterson, David A. 21 Aug 1993. "It Took a Community to Save Burial Ground." New York Times (New York), 1 (4), p. 18.

Pearce, Susan C. 1996. "The New York African Burial Ground: Social Change and Historical Recovery." New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.

Perlman, Daniel. 1971. "Organizations of the Free Negro in New York City, 1800-1860." Journal of Negro History 56 (3):181-97

Perry, Warren D. 1997. "Archaeology As Community Service." North American Dialogue (September).

Phillips, Kendall R. 1999. "A Rhetoric of Controversy." Western Journal of Communication 63(4):488-510.

Pittman, Chadra D. 1998. "If Bones Could Speak." Transforming Anthropology 7(1):53-63.

Raboteau, Albert J. 1989. "Slave Autonomy and Religion." Articles on American Slavery: Religion and Slavery, vol. 16, Editor Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Press.

Rankin-Hill, Lesley. 1997. A Biohistory of 19th-Century Afro-Americans the Burial Remains of a Philadelphia Cemetery. Westport: Bergin & Garvey.

------. 1994. "Uncovering African Americans' Buried Past." Pp. 118-13 in 1994 Science Year: World Book Annual Science Supplement, Chicago: World Book, Inc.

Rensberger, Boyce. 1997. "Colonial Remains Reclassified As African American: Jamestown Skeletons Once Thought to Be Indians." Washington Post April 24:A03.

Riddell, William R. 1989. "The Slave in Early New York: The Dutch Period." Articles on American Slavery: Slavery in the North and West, vol. 5, Editor Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Press.

Roberts, Daniel G., John P. McCarthy, Rebecca Yamin, Sherill D. Wilson, Michael L. Blakey, and et. al, Research Design Team at John Milner Associates & Howard University. 1993. " ." Research Design for Archeological and Historical Investigations of Five Points (Court House Block) New York. Prepared for General Services Administration, Region 2, April 22, 1993 .

Rosner, David ed. 1991. Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Rotenstein, David S. 4 Aug 1992. "Let Those in African American Graveyards Rest in Peace ." Philadelphia Inquirer, A (1), p. 9.

Rothstein, Edward. 20 Apr 1997. "The Black History Exhibit; Museums That Tell What to Think ." New York Times, 4 (1), p. 3.

Royston, Reginold A. 1996. "Transforming Sankofa: Black Anthropologists Interpret Life in 1700's New York Through the African Burial Ground Project. " About. . .Time February:19-21.

Ruffins, Fath D. 1997. "Culture Wars Won and Lost: Part I, Ethnic Museums on the Mall: the National Holocaust Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian." Radical History Review 68(Spring):79-100.

------. 1998. "Culture Wars Won and Lost, Part II." Radical History Review 70(Winter): 78-101.

Sachs, Charles L. 1995. "A Good and & Convenient House: The Colored Sailors' Home Aided Over 17,000 Seaman in Its 33 Years." Seaport (Fall-Winter):24-29.

Sankofa Symbol [With Definition]. Drawing of Coffin Lid With Sankofa Symbol #293 (12/15/1991); New York State Archaeology Week, Oct. 6-12, 1996, Preserving the Past for Future Generations. 1996. Office of Public Education and Information.

Satchell, Michael. 1997. " Only remember us: Skeletons of slaves from a New York grave bear witness" U.S. News Online [Web Page]. Accessed 3 August 2001. Available at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970728/28slav.htm

Scott, Kenneth. 1989. "The Slave Insurrection in New York in 1712." Articles on American Slavery: Slavery in the North and West, vol. 5, Editor Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Press

Shabazz, Saeed, The Final Call Online. 1 Jan 2000. "Howard U scientists make historic DNA breakthrough" [Web Page]. Accessed 13 Apr 2000. Available at http://www.finalcall.com/national/dna1-4-2000.htm.

Singleton, Theresa A. 1995. "Archaeology of Slavery in North America." Annual Review of Anthropology 24:119-40.

Singleton, Theresa A. and Mark D. Bograd. 1995. The Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas: Guides to the Archaeological Literature of the Immigrant Experience in America, Number 2. Washington: Society for Historical Archaeology.

Strickland-Abuwi, Lula. 1996. "Messinger on African Burial Ground Project: "A History No One Taught Us"." Daily Challenge (July 9):6.

Wall, Diana diZerega. 1994. The Archaeology of Gender : Separating the Spheres in Urban America . New York: Plenum Press.

Wall, Diana diZerga. 1995. "Silent Witness: Research into Findings at the African Burial Ground Is Proving That Bones Can Speak." Seaport (Fall-Winter).

Wei Tchen, John K. 1994. "Back to the Basics: Who Is Researching and Interpreting for Whom?" The Journal of American History 81(3):1004-10.

White, Shane. 1988. ""We Dwell in Safety and Pursue Our Honest Callings": Free Blacks in New York City, 1783-1810." Journal of American History 75(2):445-70.

Wilson, Sherrill, Director. 1996. African Burial Ground Project Chronology (3.15.89/10.26.96). New York: OPEI.

Wilson, Sherill D. 1995. "African American Beginnings in Old New York." The New York Beacon August 24-30:23.

------. n.d. "Educating Black New Yorkers: Notes on African Free Schools and Other Efforts." Through These Eyes :8,13.

 

------. 1994. Free Africans in Colonial New Amsterdam and New York (Submitted to New York City Landmarks Commission for African Burial Ground Landmarks Site Designation 1992). New York: OPEI.

Yamin, Rebecca. 1997. "New York's Mythic Slum: Digging Lower Manhattan's Infamous Five Points." Archaeology 50(2):44-53

 

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