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You can pick up a brochure and take a self-guided ... Now, the grounds help tell the stories of the 200 African American slaves who lived and worked there between the American Revolution and ...

Even the intimacy of a man and a woman was subject to the absolute control of slave-owners. Grace and Guy were given the surname of their new owner and put to work in his cotton fields.

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The family of a Black Rwandan American student who faced racial slurs and persistent racial harassment at his Woodstock, ...