Remains of An Estimated 3,000 African-Americans Buried Beneath Philadelphia Playground

Posted by admin on Jul 31, 2013

This week, a team of archaeologists broke the asphalt in four places at Weccecoe Park, digging to a depth of 3 feet to uncover evidence of the 19th century burial site. On Thursday morning, the fourth and final trench revealed a single gravestone.

“Amelia Brown, 1819, Aged 26 years” is clearly carved into the white stone, with this epitaph: “Whosoever live and believeth in me, though we be dead, yet shall we live.”

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