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Ga. Workers Search For Slave Cemetery

WSBTV

City officials have hired a company to use ground-penetrating radar to find a possible slave cemetery in Columbus.
Officials contacted Brockington and Associates after determining through historians and records that the suspected area was designated as a burial ground for blacks from 1828, before the Civil War.
City Manager Isaiah Hugley says they hope to preserve the knowledge for future generations.
The property, which is near an apartment building on Sixth Avenue, is controlled by Nofolk Southern Railway Company. It also contains an active Georgia Southwestern Railroad track and a parcel of land that's owned by the city.
The Norcross-based company specializes in identifying archaeological sites.

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I hope they find it, pay homage and document the burials through historical accounts, if any, and remind us, yet again, the atrocity of slavery. I don't like the south because of its nasty history and its ongoing prejudices. Today, I spoke with a friend who visits a 19-year old black woman in prison. The woman is in dire need of medical attention; the pen won't attend to her needs and her condition is getting more severe daily. I told him to call her attorney to ride up their ass and get her to a hospital. Prisoner or not, her civil rights are being violated. Two days ago, another black female inmate was sick, fell down the stairs and cracked her head open on the cement. She died 5 hours later, in a pool of blood, because no one would respond. The pen called it a suicide.