Art Commemorates enslaved Africans in Yonkers, NY

Enslaved Africans - Rain Garden

www.EnslavedAfricansRainGarden.org

public art project which commemorates the lives of enslaved Africans who lived at the Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers, New York – six of whom were the first to be manumitted by law in the United States in 1787, seventy six years before the Emancipation Proclamation.