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.
@ USF LIBRARY
Historical timeline, StoryMap, Oral history interviews
@ 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.
Want to add a cemetery to our network? Have a site you think our team should know about?
We want to hear from you.
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
-Toni Morrison