Friday, August 27, 2010

Article: Ground Zero's Slave Graves | Mother Jones

Ground Zero's Slave Graves | Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/ground-zero-was-built-graves-slaves

Before the World Trade Center was even designed (with Islamic architectural elements, incidentally), the ground was indeed sacrosanct: The bones of some 20,000 African slaves are buried 25 feet below Lower Manhattan.

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