African American Burial Ground
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title:
African American Burial Ground
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The African American Burial Ground is a historic cemetery for the enslaved, located in Ashburn, Virginia, off Harry Byrd Highway in Loudoun County, Virginia. Most of the enslaved buried there were from nearby Belmont Plantation. The abandoned site was rediscovered in 2015 by Rev. Michelle Thomas. Rev. Thomas was the president of the local NAACP chapter in 2019. That year, Governor Ralph Northam appointed her to the Commission on African American History Education in the Commonwealth. In 2017, th
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Historic African American cemetery in Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Burial_Ground
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2024-01-13T07:12:36Z
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