Burial Ground

I found Professor Mack’s lecture sooooooo interesting! It made me really excited for the October first trip to the African Burial Ground. I found myself captivated by all the facts and especially by his involvement in the project itself. Some of the things that he said really got my attention. He mentioned that there were over 400 bodies found but there were still tons more left undiscovered. Things like that just make you wonder about the ground that you are walking on a daily basis. When he went into great detail, through showing each photograph of skeletal remains, of how these young and old African people were buried it really opened my mind. He showed how a lot of them were buried with rituals that they brought over, which showed that, as Professor Mack stated, Africans were burying Africans. It upset me to see so many burials in which young people around my age had been buried with some kind of defect caused by the lifestyle they were forced to live. I was eager to see that there were people, like Professor Mack, who wanted to delve deeper into the lives of those bodies that were buried so long ago.