Mapping the African American Past (MAAP)

Willoughby and Duffield Streets In September of 2007, Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn got a new name.

132 West 138th Street Known for its charismatic leadership and community outreach, the Abyssinian Baptist Church was formed in 1808 by a group of African Americans and Ethiopians who refused to accept the segregated seating in the First Baptist Church of New York City.

Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University.

Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University.

290 Broadway The African Burial Ground is a federally designated historic landmark and archaeological site that was used as a cemetery by free and enslaved people of African descent during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.