
5/15/2022: Bellingcat, Sharswood
60 Minutes
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Slavery Routes
Fred miller unwittingly purchased what he now knows to be the sharswood plantation house with slave quarters just behind it. He'd always assumed his ancestors had been enslaved, but it felt like an unknowable part of a distant past. Learning about his great grandmother, sarah miller, whom his mother had known as a child, asiqued his interest. His family also remembers roots as pivotal. It started with a call from two archaeologists who wanted to come due research. They believe it was originally built in the late 17 hundreds as a house for family. That's where the original door was, and was later divided into two separate, single rooms, or slave dwellings,. Two different
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