Former slave cemetery at Historic Brattonsville to be 'reconsecrated'

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Former slave cemetery at Historic Brattonsville to be 'reconsecrated'

Historic Brattonsville, a former plantation in McConnells, S.C., will “reconsecrate” a five-acre plot that archaeologists have identified as a burial site for at least 481 “people of African descent,” site officials announced Tuesday.The Culture & Heritage Museums, which manages Historic Brattonsville, said the cemetery is one of the largest burial grounds for enslaved people in the Carolina Piedmont.After years of studying the wooded site, arch…