Relocate or rebury? How the final resting place of the Sugar Land 95 played out in court

This story is part of Episode 3 of “Sugar Land.” Listen to the full episode above. Nearly three decades before the cemetery containing the Sugar Land 95 was found, the federal government made a similar discovery in Lower Manhattan. The remains of an estimated 15,000 free and enslaved Africans who’d lived and worked there in the 1600s and 1700s were buried just 30 feet beneath the city.