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Why only one grave was marked in this slave cemetery

Hidden on a wooded hillside in Troup County, Georgia, this plantation-era slave cemetery contains dozens of graves — but only one marked headstone. This visit documents the burial ground of the ...
Sidestep: Adventures Into History on MSN

Slave cemetery found on 182 year old Alabama plantation

A forgotten cemetery containing the graves of enslaved people and their descendants has been uncovered on the 182 year old ...
An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...
Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...
The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...
The transatlantic slave trade, carried out by Western powers for nearly four centuries, remains one of humanity's darkest chapters, leaving deep scars through the suffering, loss, and shattered lives ...
Seventy-five miles northeast of Disney World, a tangled forest of palms, pines, and mossy oaks nearly reclaims the charred remnants of Bulow Plantation and the hulking ruins of its massive ...
Greg Johnsman, the owner of Marsh Hen Mill and Millers All Day, helps harvest Carolina Gold for the first time in 200-plus ...
West Blagdon Stud's Frankel colt was purchased by M V Magnier for 1.15 million guineas at the Tattersalls December Foal SaleCredit: Laura Green/Tattersalls Coolmore and Juddmonte traded seven-figure ...
The opposing defense was as stiff as the wind in Cleveland. The 49ers cut right through it. It wasn’t pretty, but it was a marginal-stress road victory against an elite unit — the kind of win that a ...
A new digital The Resistance Trail of Southwest Georgia spanning more than six Southwest Georgia counties reveals that Albany’s Courthouse was the site of the second-largest single sale of enslaved ...
Also available on the Internet to registered users. "Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade.