Day Two: August 5

We met downtown near Wall Street to take an African American walking tour and to visit the burial grounds. We learned that at Wall and Broad Streets was a rather large slave market and that the oringinal Dutch New York was built by slaves: the wall that divided Dutch New York from the Indian New York to canals the Dutch wanted built. There once was a lake in lower New York where the bodies of the Africans, enslaved Africans, and Indians were thrown. That is now the site of the finicial district and City Hall. They have discovered hundreds of slave bodies and have built a memorial on the site.

In small groups we participated in a Hunting and Gathering food tour of the Lower East Side. We had to visit 8 from a list of 20 places to eat, interview the workers and owners and try to discover the history of the immigrant interaction from the eatery.

Lastly, Does a building have memory?
We visited St. Augustine's Episcopalian Church, that once heald a rather wealthy congregation. In the back balcony there were the slave galleries, where the slaves would worship and could see the service but did not have to be seen by the rest of the congregation.