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The 1838 Jesuit sale of 272 slaves that still haunts Georgetown University today
Wikimedia Commons/Georgetown Slavery Archive The Georgetown Jesuit Slave Sale of 1838 Maryland Jesuits built farms as early ...
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The 72-foot ceremonial mound that made ancient Tennessee a spiritual capital from 1000-1400 CE
Wikimedia Commons/Bms4880 Pinson Mounds Complex Native Americans built the largest group of Middle Woodland period mounds in ...
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Arlington Cemetery’s forgotten village built by freed slaves on Confederate land in 1863
Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...
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The only intact African culture that survived American slavery is hidden in this South Carolina heritage corridor
Wikimedia Commons/Davidmccoy1 The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor runs 12,000 square miles from South Carolina to Florida. Congress created this protected area in ...