Posted by on December 26, 2019 9:04 am
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The discovery of 40 graves on a country club in Florida has focused attention on the south’s unmarked slave cemeteries

The rumors swirled for decades: a dark history long lay buried under the grassy knolls and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida’s capital city, Tallahassee.

Over the years, neat rows of rectangular depressions along the 7th fairway deepened in the grass, outlining what would be confirmed this month as sunken graves of the slaves who lived and died on a plantation that once sprawled with cotton near the Florida Capitol.

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