Our trip to the African Burial Ground was one of the most astounding things I have ever experienced. It was an amazing feeling to almost feel connected to the Africans who were buried right in the middle of New York. It was also surprising that many people had walked the streets of New York millions of times and had never known what lay beneath their feet. Although it was extremely cold that day I felt somewhat of a calming feeling come over me once we chanted "ashay", as if an extreme bond had been built. After walking through the sculpture of the door of return, the burial site became even more interesting to me, all of the religious texts or scriptures that had been engraved into the monument were intriguing and were even exciting to learn the meaning of most of them from Dr. Carr.
Other than the sight itself what also amazed me was the Howard University's Anthropology department was able to be apart of this amazing discovery. A fact that Howard will always been in the memory of the African Burial Ground is an amazing and major part of the Burial Ground within itself. Howard Univerisity is now more apart of history than ever before. Lastly, I enjoyed the trip to the African Burial Ground and suggest that anyone take that trip to New York to visit the monument, it is a life changing and a priceless experience.
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