a Multimedia monument to colonial African Americans in Boston
by roberto mighty
Copp's Hill Burying Ground, in Boston's North End, holds the remains of approximately 10,000 colonial and post-colonial era individuals. Visitors can now see about 1,200 headstones. Of the estimated 1,000 Black people interred there, all but a handful are in unmarked graves.
This project honors the memory of the five African-Americans whose headstones still exist at Copp's Hill Burying Ground, plus three whose remains are believed to be somewhere in what is now the City of Boston.
This project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-Monument initiative, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
Presentation Partners: The Freedom Trail Foundation and Old North Illuminated