El Cementerio Africano (the African Burial Ground)

Contributor(s): Shea, Therese M (Author), Garcia, Ana Maria (Translator)

ISBN: 9781482462197

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing

$21.20

Pub Date: December 30, 2016

Dewey: 974.701

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Maps

Target Age Group: 09 to 11

Physical Info: 0.30" H x 9.20" L x 6.70" W ( 0.50 lbs) 32 pages

BISAC Categories:

Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

Series: Historia Oculta (Hidden History)

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000188205 ( El Cementerio Africano (the African Burial Ground))

Reading level: 6.50

Interest level: MG

Point value: 1.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In 1991, preparation for the construction of a new federal office building led to a startling discovery: a skeleton. Further excavation exposed the bones of 420 men, women, and children. This area of New York had been a burial ground set aside for both free and enslaved Africans during the 1600s and 1700s. Its thought to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. This noteworthy bookwhich includes sidebars, fact boxes, a timeline, and mapsfills in the gaps of history books, exposing much about what life was like in colonial New York for Africans.