Mon, Oct 06, 2003 - Page 16 News List

Remains of slaves reinterred in downtown Manhattan

The sensitive issues of race and slavery rose when it was discovered a planned municipal building would rest on a former slave cemetery in Lower Manhattan

By Michael Luo  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

Before the burial on Saturday, he said many people might still be angry that it had taken so long, but "I will be happy," he said. "And proud."

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