‘It’s been erased’: Community engages in future of Shockoe Hill African Burial Ground

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Community members came out to the Black History Museum on Sunday to hear ideas for the future of the historic Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground .

“Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground represents over 22,000, untold histories, stories, relations,” said Burt Pinnock, project architect at Baskervill .

Opened in 1816, the burial ground was once one of the largest cemeteries in the country for free and enslaved African Americans…

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