NYC Slave Cemetery Is Now Hallowed Ground In New York City, on lower Manhattan Island, lie two and a half hectares of land that represent brutal early American history. Its where many Africans who were slaves in homes, factories and the citys burgeon

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The Dragon King watched the bonfire as it blazedup toward the sky. Around the fire the air was thickand wavy. Bamboo books were stacked beside thefire, waiting to be burned. Hurry! said the scholar. They jumped down from the cart and joined thecrowd

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The oxcart bumped across the wooden bridge thatcrossed over a moat. Then it passed guards standingby giant wooden gates. Are the gates ever closed? Jack asked. Oh, yes, every day at sunset, said the scholar. When the gong sounds, the gates close. The

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By Mona Ghuneim New York 09 October 2007 Sixteen years after the rediscovery of an African burial ground in Lower Manhattan, New York City and federal officials dedicated a memorial on the site, and paid tribute to the thousands of nameless men, wome

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TIANJIN, April 4 (Xinhua) -- People in a north China city have been offered a new way to go green -- put the ashes of their loved ones in dissolvable urns and bury them in the soil or in the pond. That is a far cry from the tradition land burial, whi

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This time a large set of ancient tombs dating back to the Han Dynasty, in central China's Hunan Province. Archaeologists have so far found 48 brick-chambered tombs and over 10 earthen tombs. They have also dug out more than 150 burial objects, includ

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