Ocean Pines, Md. – Underneath the tree shade at a clearing off of Stephen Decatur Highway lie about 53 graves of enslaved and formerly enslaves members of the Purnell family. “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for these people. I wouldn’t be here. And I’m fighting to fight for them because they can’t fight for themselves,” 72-year-old landscape contractor and Salisbury resident Bobby Purnell said. Originally purchased in 1866 by Purnell’s five-tim…
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