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A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z01VZNYPzOo In central North Carolina, not far from where I live, sits the Franklinton Center at Bricks, a 224-acre educational campus and conference center built on the remains of a historic “Agricultural, Industrial, and Normal School,” then junior college, for the descendants of enslaved people. These schools were themselves built on the land of a […]
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