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Photographer: Larry Gertner
Taken: March 3, 2019
Caption: Foley Square c. 1730 marker, upper half
Additional Description: Left motif: Mourners at a gravesite in the African Burial Ground
Central motif: The African Burial Ground Story text
Right motif: First slave auction in New Amsterdam – 1655
Text ribbon: Out of the huts of history’s shame/I rise/up from a past that’s rooted in pain/I rise/I’m a black ocean/leaping and wide/Welling and swelling I bear the tide./Leaving behind nights of terror and fear/I rise/Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear/I rise/ Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave/I am the dream and the hope of the slave/I rise

Submitted: March 9, 2019, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p466392
File Size: 0.435 Megabytes

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