On Saturday October 16th, my freshman seminar group attended at trip to New York Where we visited the African Burial Ground. Upon arrival, Dr. Carr gave livation, which is the oldest ritual known to man. We did this for the ancestors that were found at the burial ground, for central Africa where most slaves were brought over during the middle passage, for our mothers and fathers, four ourselves, and for those who were not yet born.
After this the group split off. Some stayed outside while others went inside to view the museum. We also viewed a video which gave us background on slavery, the burial ground itself, and what they african american community had to go through to get the land turned into a monument. It went from being turned into a landfill to a contraversy exploding in 1991 when the remains were found. Protests were staged at the building for the African American community among others thought this was disrespect.
Howard University has to do with the African Burial Ground as well for the remains that were recovered were sent here to be examined. The video also depicted a story of a little girl who's father had passed away and been buried at the grave site.
After the video we entered the museum and there were wax figures of that little girl and her mother that were in the video. Also there were plaques on the wall that had different types of information printed on them. For example one of them had information about the research that was conducted on the remains at Howard University.
After we toured the museum, we went outside and the monument outside with all the pictures and the pyramid were explained to us.
After we toured the Burial Ground and the museum inside, we were taken to Harlem and we were able to go shopping and walk around where I ended up buying a really cute hat. Overall i really enjoyed this trip. This was one of the most interesting events from freshman seminar.
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