'EPICENTER: The Grounds' is a crash course on the “hidden” Black history of NYC, using City Hall a framing device — from the slave-trading history of the city’s founding to a massive African burial ground recently rediscovered by City Hall.
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We can't separate Black history from the city of New York, because they're intertwined from the very outset.The 14-minute film is a crash course on the “hidden” Black history of New York City, and by virtue the country, using City Hall past and present as a framing device – from the slave-trading history of the city’s founding and its namesake to a massive African burial ground recently rediscovered by the grounds of City Hall.
At the beginning of the tour, Ware handed out white cards with biographies of different historical figures he referenced throughout the walk: from the white revolutionary John Jay – the namesake of a local public university – to Catherine Ferguson, a Black philanthropist and former slave who started the city's first Sunday School, and Rose Butler, who was hanged for setting fire to her enslaver's home.
“This is an intention out from the outset that says: we don't mind burying over your burial ground,” Ware said.That erasure goes beyond just the burial ground. The city has buried or covered up much of its Black history, he said. Northerners may critique the South’s notorious support of slavery, "but before there was a cotton-planting South, there was slavery in the North," he added.
On this day, Ware’s tour audience was a group of Black activists, scholars and organizers from Lisbon, Portugal, who are working to erect a memorial there for enslaved people. Ware’s excursion was the group’s last stop in a multi-state survey of Black history museums, landmarks and tours across the United States, including a Charleston plantation and the African American History Museum in Washington, D.C.
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