A slave cemetery beneath a parking lot in the US: Fighting to preserve historical memory

By Eulàlia Galante Perarnau Bethesda, United States, Feb 17 (EFE).- The purpose of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC), an organization that originated from the Macedonia Baptist Church in its namesake city, has been to ensure that the land where the bodies of enslaved African Americans and their loved ones rest in the United States …

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