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Rediscovery of African American burial grounds provides long-overdue opportunities for collective healing

  • Written by Joanna Gilmore, Adjunct Professor in Museum Studies and Bioarchaeology, College of Charleston

In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. They had lain hidden for some 200 years in an unmarked 18th-century burial ground.

For more than two centuries, such burial grounds, especially those in the former American slave states,...

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