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SCROLL DOWN TO LEARN MORE: HELP
RECLAIM RICHMOND'S AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND AND RE-ASSERT RICHMOND'S BLACK HISTORY INTO THE BOOKS, OUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND
OUR ANALYSIS OF LIFE TODAY.
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NEW documentary film entitled " Meet Me in the Bottom: The Struggle to Reclaim Richmond's
African Burial Ground" a Burn Baby Burn production directed by Shawn Utsey, filmed and edited by Dr. Utsey, Jennida Chase, Shanika Smiley and Calvin Jamison
Jr. This film is an excellent introduction to the oldest municipal cemetary in Richmond, Virginia, the Black community struggles
to reclaim the RIGHT TO KNOW their history by having the right to determine how it is revealed, examined, commemorated for
the edification of generations to come. To inquire about screenings for educational purposes, please e-mail the Sacred Ground Project.
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Petition to Reclaim our Richmond's Oldest Municipal Burial
Site for Free and Enslaved Black People. Included with the petition is a form to complete so you can Tell
Us Your Vision for memorialing the Burial Ground and the ancestors buried there as well as for Shocke Bottom.
Download petition!
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Institute for Historical Biology (IHB) Review of the Virginia Department of Historic
Resources (DHR) Validation and Assessment Report on the Burial Ground for Negroes, Richmond, Virginia by C. M. Stephenson,
25 June 2008. Prepared by Michael L. Blakey, Ph.D, Director, Institute
for Historical Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,
Virginia, 20 September 2008
About the Institute for Historical Biology: http://www.wm.edu/as/anthropology/research/ihb/index.php
Download the IHB report
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Burial Ground for Negroes, Richmond, Virginia: Validation and Assessment
- Prepared by C. M. Stevenson, Ph.D., for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Ricmond,
Virginia, 25 June 2008
About the Virginia
Department of Historic Resources: http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/
Download the DHR report
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News coverage of August 2009 protest of repaving of VCU
parking lot:
"The
300-year struggle for the African Burial Ground, from a strictly scientific standpoint, constitutes a continuing assertion
of human identity against those who would belittle or belie that status for reasons of economic expediency." - Dr. Michael L. Blakey, from The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives,
a Construction of Ancestral Ties, presented August 19, 1997 to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Sub-Committee
on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SACRED GROUND PROJECT WEBSITE
What is Shockoe Bottom now? It is a singular site of far-reaching historical importance for
the Black Community and for all who would come to Richmond to experience history, to absorb it, to understand it. And because
of where they will be able to place their feet, and what they will see from this vantage point, they will remember and they
will share it. And others will come.
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