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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Travis Loller

The burial site of slaves owned by a former US president has finally been found

Grave markers are seen in a slave cemetery - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The location of the final resting place of a group of slaves once owned by a former president has finally been found.

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president, between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865.

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