Were there other African burial grounds in New York City during the colonial period of the 1600s through the 1700s?
There were others including two “Negro Burial Grounds” in the Bronx, one at Van Cortland Park and one at Drake Park on Hunts Point Avenue. Enslaved Africans were also buried near Bedford and DeKalb Avenues in Brooklyn. New York graveyards, in general, were racially segregated by law and by custom. African Americans were banned from the Trinity Church graveyard at Wall Street in 1697. However in 1773, on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Trinity Church established a separate African Burial Ground on Church Street between Duane and Worth. There were exceptions to the practice of segregated burials. At least a few of New York City’s oldest churches routinely buried members of their congregation together, regardless of race, in their cemeteries. For example, research conducted by the Office of Public Education and Interpretation has confirmed the burials of Africans and Europeans in the former cemetery of the Moravian Church, formerly located at Mott and Pell Streets. In 1795, after the Af
