The African American Burial Ground & Remembering Project

What is the AABGP?

 

The African American Burial Ground Project was recently launched out of the University of South Florida to conduct research on historic black cemeteries in Florida. It does so by bringing USF into conversation with two specific, ongoing African-American cemetery recovery and re-interpretation projects.

 
AABGP PROJECT PORTAL

@ USF LIBRARY

Historical timeline, StoryMap, Oral history interviews

HERITAGE RESEARCH LAB

@ USF ANTHROPOLOGY DEPT

We use a comprehensive, networked approach to problem identification, team building, and community outreach.

 

Our primary goals are aligning the passion and expertise of a USF faculty-student network with the interests and lived experiences of Tampa Bay’s people, communities, and businesses, and leveraging this energy to facilitate a change in how we educate and learn about our home-town history, especially ways of remembering and addressing a traumatic past. This work requires that we uncover racial wounds long covered in silence and move toward repair and healing.

 

OUr story begins here

Produced by Diamond View Studios

 
 

Want to add a cemetery to our network? Have a site you think our team should know about?

We want to hear from you.

I'm interested. How do I add my site?
I have a research question
 

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

-Toni Morrison