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Hansen, Joyce , McGowan, Gary

Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground

130 pp. | Holt | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-5012-4
(2) YA Skeletons uncovered in 1991 during the construction of a new federal office building provide a dramatic focal point for this careful account of African-American life in New York City during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The authors provide important details of both New York and national history and also demonstrate how "the important work of understanding our collective past continues." Bib., ind.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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