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NEW YORK - Workers polished the granite and tended to other last-minute details Friday before a dedication ceremony at a memorial at the African Burial Ground, where free blacks and slaves were buried more than two centuries ago.
The ceremony at the lower Manhattan site comes 16 years after bones were rediscovered there.
Starting Friday afternoon, visitors can enter a 20-foot-high chamber of gray stone with water elements running beside it. Designer Rodney Leon stood inside the chamber before the dedication, his voice echoing inside the granite.
“Your voice is projected here,” he said. “Hopefully, it can be heard not only in the immediate area, but by the ancestors too"...
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