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Florida’s capital city approves plan to sell golf course built on slaves’ graves, despite outcry
The sale includes deed restrictions and funding for a memorial at the plantation cemetery where formerly enslaved people are buried, drawing public opposition.
- Florida's capital city voted to sell a public golf course built atop slave graves to a formerly segregated country club for $1.255 million.
- Archaeologists identified 23 unmarked graves and 14 possible graves near the 7th hole of the golf course.
- $98,000 of the proceeds will fund a commemorative site for the burial grounds with public access guaranteed.
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Florida's capital city approves plan to sell golf course built on slaves' graves, despite outcry
Local officials in Florida’s capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved people to a once-segregated country club.
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