The Flatbush African Burial Ground or FABG is the site of a historic African-American cemetery dating to the 17th century at Church and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, on land formerly owned by the adjacent Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church. Early Dutch settlers in the 1600s such as Leffert Pieterse, of the Lefferts family, owned enslaved people to work and use their agricultural knowledge to grow grain. Farming was central to Kings County, modern Brooklyn, as the second-largest provider of produce in the country to the end of the 1800s, and the burials of slaves and later free people of African descent were largely segregated from their owners or white neighbors in the cemetery of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church. Similar segregation of the Reformed Church burials in Harlem resulted in the Harlem African Burial Ground beneath the MTA 126th Street Bus Depot. The first national census in 1790 counted every third inhabitant of Kings County as black and recorded almost 60% of white households owning slaves, with the amount owning slaves higher in the town of Flatbush. Slavery in New York State was not fully abolished until 1827. More information...
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