Remains of 7 adults and 7 children were uncovered by construction workers 11 years ago in an unmarked gravesite in New York State.

Wrapped in shrouds, in plain pine boxes, they were forgotten.

The exhumed bones were kept at the State Museum and research had found out that they were likely enslaved people to the prominent Schuyler family.

Arthritic and worn these people were made to work hard and were not respected in life or death.

They have now been publicly memorialized and buried in personalized boxes beside prominent families in old Albany.

Dailyfreeman.com reported

“It’s something we agonize over because it’s very rare that you have an opportunity to not just speak about the lives of the enslaved, but to actually do something to honor them,” said Cordell Reaves, of the Schuyler Flatts Burial Ground Project. “We have an obligation to make sure that these people receive a level of dignity and respect that they never received in life.”

The plot is in St. Agnes Cemetery, a donated prime plot high on a hillside.

Their granite headstones picked to last forever and in ornate hand made boxes decorated with the symbol for Sankofa.

The report went onto say:

The etching, echoing the style of 18th-century graves, reads: “Here lies the remains of 14 souls known only to God. Enslaved in life, they are slaves no more.

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The bodies showed evidence of African or Madagascan ancestry and one woman had Native American roots on her mother’s side.

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Facial reconstructions were also previously made.

This will never write the wrongs but it’s the very least that can be done for them.