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1800s forced convict labor left behind a ‘mass grave’ of potentially hundreds in North Carolina

John Boyle, Asheville Citizen Times Comments Off on 1800s forced convict labor left behind a ‘mass grave’ of potentially hundreds in North Carolina

To construct a railroad over a North Carolina mountain, the state and railroad company used thousands of African American convict laborers.

      
John Boyle, Asheville Citizen Times
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