American Slavery Project: Unheard Voices
Sunday, November 5th at 2 pm
Free with Museum Admission (arriving early and reserving tickets online in advance is strongly recommended)
Ages 9 and up
The American Slavery Project commissioned 17 writers to examine 419 graves of the anonymous men, women and children slaves, indentured servants and free people who lived during the colonial era and are buried in the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. Their names and daily lives have been imagined from the contents of each grave. Unheard Voices, a monologue play with music, brings to life a moment in time that might have been and gives voice to those African descended individuals who lived, loved laughed and endured on the streets of 17th and 18th Century New York.
Although this event is free with Museum admission, arriving early and reserving tickets online in advance is strongly recommended.
The American Slavery Project is a theatrical response to increasing revisionism in our nation's discourse about slavery, the Civil War and Jim Crow. ASP supports African-American playwrights who write about the era, creates conversation in the community and provides educational workshops for students and adults. "Unheard Voices" is American Slavery Project’s first original piece, a collectively written
theatrical performance created for the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. ”