作者: Martia G. Goodson

Martia G. Goodson, Ph D, is an American historian specializing in African American oral history. She authored Chronicles of Faith: the Autobiography of Frederick. D. Patterson and has written numerous articles for academic and professional journals and magazines on black oral history. She is the author of New York’s African Burial Ground, an official guide to the cemetery of fifteen thousand Africans enslaved in colonial Lower Manhattan. After a career teaching at Baruch College-CUNY, Dr. Goodson is completing a second book on the burial ground and a book of stories from formerly enslaved black people in Tennessee and Kentucky. She enjoys interviewing and photography and lives in Bronx, New York.