African Burial Ground

The trip to the African Burial ground was one that I was skeptical about taking. Slavery is a sensitive subject to talk about to me, and it’s not that I don’t care about what our ancestors went through it’s just something that I’d rather not talk about. I’ve never been too concerned with getting to know my ancestry and things like that because I am comfortable with what I already know. However I did like when we went through the “ship” that was outside with the sankofa sign on the side of it. I like the concept of sankofa which means “go back and take”. I do understand that in order to understand where we are today we have to know where we came from. I also believe that in order to prevent the events of the past from happening in the future we have to assess what went wrong then and fix it before it gets out of hand. The trip to the Burial Ground was not as depressing as I thought it would be. The thing that interested me most was looking at the bones that were discovered and the ages, weight, and gender of the people extracted. I was also fascinated by the replica of the burial that we saw in the video because it seemed so realistic. I thought it would be more to see in the museum than there was, but all in all the information presented was enough.