Reflection On The African Burial Ground

During this week, our class has went to the African Burial Ground and to Governors Island to learn about our city’s history. Before going to the African Burial Ground, we were able to read an article about it, which that was able to help me understand what this place was about and what their message was. At this place, I was able to have a better understanding of the lives of the African Americans, but more importantly I understood about the lives of them. On this trip, we were given a video to watch over there, that shows two stories one of which talked about a family of slaves, while the other talked about the discovery of these bodies under a constructing building. By going to the African Burial Ground, I was taught something that I didn’t …show more content…
In learning these lessons, we were given a document packet to read, where by reading the documents, I had a mixed reaction to this. On the one hand, I think that the documents would be helpful notes and information for me to understand what we will be discussing in class, but I think that if there were a few questions that came with the documents, it would help me process and analyze the documents information easier. I have looked through the documents and see that there are actually some documents that come with questions, so I thinkt hat by reading and answering questions, it can help me see and picture the context better. In addition, to this because we generally have started to do each document as a do now, it should be helpful for me to get ready for the class, when we start reading it. I believe that the documents are helpful for me, in terms of helping me see images and pictures in my head after reading it, because some of these documents are written in forms of poems, speeches of a leader, or by a person telling the situation by the author's perspective. By reading these forms of document, especially poems, it gives me descriptions by using different figurative languages on details and