New York City’s African Burial Ground
Michael L. Blakey is the NEH Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and the director of the Institute for Historical Biology at the College of William and Mary. He is the editor, with Lesley M. Rankin-Hill, of The Skeletal Biology of the New York African Burial Ground , Volume I of The New York African Burial Ground: Unearthing the African Presence in Colonial New York (2009), and the co-author of “Political Economy of African Forced Migration and Enslavement in Colonial New York: An Historical Biology Perspective” ( New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology , ed....