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Remorse, Not Race: Essence Of Parole Release?, Lovashni Khalikaprasad
Remorse, Not Race: Essence Of Parole Release?, Lovashni Khalikaprasad
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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Equality At The Cemetery Gates: Study Of An African American Burial Ground, William A. Engelhart
Equality At The Cemetery Gates: Study Of An African American Burial Ground, William A. Engelhart
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
In Charlottesville, Virginia, the University Cemetery serves as the final resting place of many of the most prominent community members of the University of Virginia. In 2011, the University planned an expansion. During archaeological research to this end, sixty-seven previously unidentified interments, in both adult and child-sized grave shafts, were discovered on the proposed site of expansion, to the northeast of the University Cemetery. Further archival research revealed that “at least two late nineteenth century references note that enslaved African Americans were buried north of but outside the enclosed University, in an adjacent wooded area.” In one, Col. Charles Christian …