Host to Hidden Treasure – Slaves' Burials – Savannah, GA
Host to Hidden Treasure – Slaves' Burials – Savannah, GA
Many enslaved and free blacks were buried in the Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, GA. Back then, they rarely buried Blacks and whites on the same burial grounds. The weeping willow was born here…
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Host to Hidden Treasure is an educational interactive on the transatlantic slave trade. It follows the journey of two rappers, Jelly from Toronto and Yoshi from Atlanta, as they retrace actual slave trading routes across Georgia, USA, Ontario, Canada and Gold Coast, Ghana.
We made this resource for educators to enhance Black history curriculums and to bring more culturally relevant, responsive and engaging content into classrooms.
This video is part of a series of videos included in the resource.
For more info, please visit: www.stolenfromafrica.org/host-to-hidden-treasure.
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Very heart breaking. They really were just used and discarded like they were nothing. There really should be gardens and flowers to honour the countless lives of slaves that were lost. 💐
Thank you for sharing I needed to see that my great grandfather Adam Dunham is buried there. Actually there are a lot of Dunhams there but Im still researching the connection.
The bodies in most cases would have be mostly one at a time sometimes two or three depending on if it was an illness! The slaves would have dug the Graves so I think as much care as possible would be used! As the descendants were freed and many moved on the cemetarys might not have been well kept! The stones have be knocked over by falling trees or limbs and get moved by those effects! The stones were put back as close to where whoever was placing them thought they should be! After 150+ years my things have changed! I see the same thing in old early settler Graves out in the middle of nowhere! As the people who knew the people buried there die, little by little they are forgotten!
Sad,very sad ! How they treated our Ancestors,they might have stack them on top each other as well !
Black history is so depressing
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Thanks for sharing this! I had an opportunity to visit a plantation in Alabama in 2014 and saw the slaves burial ground. I literally stood on graves as they were no headstones like you are showing. It was a very emotional experience to know that they were not even regarded enough to have headstones. In order to be remembered by anyone.