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Remains of slaves owned by Hamilton's father-in-law reburied in New York state [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Remains of slaves owned by Hamilton's father-in-law reburied in New York state
DNA analysis of remains recovered in 2005 confirms identities of slaves
owned by Revolutionary War general and senator Philip Schuyler
Alan Yuhas
Saturday 18 June 2016 16.48 BST
The 14 bodies were found during work on water pipes, each of them aligned to the east. They were the remains of a man, six women, five children and two infants, and they were near land once owned by the father-in-law of Alexander Hamilton, a hero of the US revolutionary war. They were the family’s slaves.
On Saturday the community that survived them in Albany, New York, will see them buried again in a cemetery first dedicated in the run-up to the civil war for Irish Catholics, the unwanted immigrants of the 1860s.
The remains were recovered in 2005, but it was not until years later that DNA and bone analysis showed African ancestry and the telltale marks of slavery.
“They could tell that they were small in stature but muscular,” said Kelly Grimaldi, historian for St Agnes, the church near which the bones where found and where they will be buried.
“They didn’t appear to have been abused, no gunshot wounds, no knifed bones, a few broken bones. But overall the conclusion was that they definitely had a hard life.”
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DNA analysis of remains recovered in 2005 confirms identities of slaves
owned by Revolutionary War general and senator Philip Schuyler
Alan Yuhas
Saturday 18 June 2016 16.48 BST
The 14 bodies were found during work on water pipes, each of them aligned to the east. They were the remains of a man, six women, five children and two infants, and they were near land once owned by the father-in-law of Alexander Hamilton, a hero of the US revolutionary war. They were the family’s slaves.
On Saturday the community that survived them in Albany, New York, will see them buried again in a cemetery first dedicated in the run-up to the civil war for Irish Catholics, the unwanted immigrants of the 1860s.
The remains were recovered in 2005, but it was not until years later that DNA and bone analysis showed African ancestry and the telltale marks of slavery.
“They could tell that they were small in stature but muscular,” said Kelly Grimaldi, historian for St Agnes, the church near which the bones where found and where they will be buried.
“They didn’t appear to have been abused, no gunshot wounds, no knifed bones, a few broken bones. But overall the conclusion was that they definitely had a hard life.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/18/philip-schuyler-family-slaves-buried-again-new-york
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