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Enslaved People Believed Buried Outside Sugaw Creek Cemetery

Jack Beckett·

Charlotte made the two Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church cemeteries historic landmarks Monday. Researchers told council that more than 500 enslaved people are believed buried just outside them in unmarked graves, and asked that those graves be protected too.

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