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Recently uncovered bodies at Q Street reveal a connection to the Georgetown slave trade


Recently uncovered bodies at Q Street reveal a connection to the Georgetown slave trade
Illustration by John Woolley
Archaeologists discovered the remains of 28 African Americans at the 3300 block of Q Street NW in Georgetown from the early 1800s, prompting archeologists and historians to develop theories connecting the bodies to Georgetown’s slave trade and the Underground Railroad.
With one body fully analyzed and six others in a preliminary analysis, the process of identifying and tracing the remains has been slow but garnered renewed attention over the area’s history of slavery following the wave of racial justice protests this past summer. ....

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Inside the search for tombstones from the Columbian Harmony Cemetery, where 37,000 Black D.C. residents were once buried


CBS News
CBS News
February 21, 2021, 9:32 AM
Inside the search for tombstones from the Columbian Harmony Cemetery, where 37,000 Black D.C. residents were once buried
Four years ago, Virginia State Senator Richard Stuart and his wife Lisa were exploring their new farm on the Potomac River when they saw something in the water that brought tears to her eyes and made him feel ill.
Lisa and I looked at each other, and both of us said, is that a headstone? Then we looked, and we saw another and another and another, the lawmaker told CBS News Chip Reid.
It was just a horrible feeling to think that this person s headstone was here on our shoreline… and not where it belonged with her body, where her family could grieve and mourn and remember her life, Lisa said.   ....

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