Michael Hattem on the American Revolution's POW's and NYC's Buried History in the War by The Gotham Center for New York City History published on 2019-01-04T02:46:04Z Michael Hattem, co-founder of the Junto blog and historian of colonial New York City, speaks about the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where the remains of nearly 11,000 P.O.W.'s in the American Revolution are buried -- why 'Gotham' seldom figures largely in popular accounts of the war for independence -- and why it took more than 100 years to erect a memorial to the many thousands who died from torture or neglect at the hands of the British Genre Storytelling
