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    Slavery, Freedom and Civil Rights: The Legacies at Shockoe Hill Cemetery

    Sunday, June 02, 2024

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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    Shockoe Hill Cemetery

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    06/02/2024 02:00 PM 06/02/2024 03:15 PM America/Anguilla Slavery, Freedom and Civil Rights: The Legacies at Shockoe Hill Cemetery Richmond was a center of the American slave trade, but the light of freedom existed here as well. Join Jeffry Burden of the "Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery" for this special tour focusing on those buried here who either participated in, or opposed, human bondage before, during and after the Civil War — including the former Confederate sailor who faced assassins’ bullets while seeking the rights of citizenship for freedmen in North Carolina.Event LinksFacebook: https://go.evvnt.com/2455133-0 Details & Tickets: https://www.upcomingevents.com/richmond/events/shockoe-hill-cemetery/slavery-freedom-and-civil-rights-the-legacies-at-shockoe-hill-cemetery-242407?ref=uceaddevent Shockoe Hill Cemetery, 209 Hospital Street, Richmond, VA, 23219

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    Richmond was a center of the American slave trade, but the light of freedom existed here as well. Join Jeffry Burden of the "Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery" for this special tour focusing on those buried here who either participated in, or opposed, human bondage before, during and after the Civil War — including the former Confederate sailor who faced assassins’ bullets while seeking the rights of citizenship for freedmen in North Carolina.

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