<P> African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way ( Elk Street ) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan , New York City . Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway . The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries in a portion of what was the largest colonial - era cemetery for people of African descent , some free , most enslaved . Historians estimate there may have been 10,000 -- 20,000 burials in what was called the `` Negroes Burial Ground '' in the 1700s . The five to six acre site 's excavation and study was called `` the most important historic urban archeological project in the United States . '' The Burial Ground site is New York 's earliest known African - American `` cemetery '' ; studies show an estimated 15,000 African American people were buried here . </P>
<P> African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way ( Elk Street ) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan , New York City . Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway . The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries in a portion of what was the largest colonial - era cemetery for people of African descent , some free , most enslaved . Historians estimate there may have been 10,000 -- 20,000 burials in what was called the `` Negroes Burial Ground '' in the 1700s . The five to six acre site 's excavation and study was called `` the most important historic urban archeological project in the United States . '' The Burial Ground site is New York 's earliest known African - American `` cemetery '' ; studies show an estimated 15,000 African American people were buried here . </P>
who was buried at the african burial ground
who was buried at the african burial ground
more than 419 Africans
more than 419 Africans