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Enslaved African American Burial Ground

This guide supports examination of the burial site of the enslaved peoples working on the Van Cortland Plantation, now Van Cortlandt Park. Through books, articles, slave indexes and links, life for the enslaved is explored under the colonial Dutch.

Van Cortlandt Park's Enslaved African American Burial Ground

Contact Info: Janet Munch, Special Collections Librarian janet.munch@lehman.cuny.edu

Video--Van Cortlandt House Museum

Guided tour of Van Cortlandt Park by Nick Dembowski, President of Kingsbridge Historical Society (Nov., 2018)