1 Mar 2010

Slaves remembered at early burial ground in New York

6:11 am on 1 March 2010

A ceremony has been held in New York to remember African slaves who used to be buried outside the city's limits.

A visitor centre has been opened at a site where about 15,000 African slaves and their descendants were buried in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The burial ground, under what is today Manhattan, was rediscovered in 1991, and is a now a national memorial.

Some of the remains of the slaves have been dug up and reburied.