Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home DramaAlert

Names of 1,630 Free and Enslaved Black People Honored

rmtsa by rmtsa
September 16, 2024
in DramaAlert
0
Names of 1,630 Free and Enslaved Black People Honored
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


You might also like

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Sentenced To More Than 4 Years In Prison

Defense Lawyer Claims a Man Tried to Stab Mogul In Jail! • Hollywood Unlocked

Diddy Sued by Woman Claiming He Sexually Assaulted Her in L.A. Club

Names of 1,630 Free and Enslaved Black People Honored

by Jeroslyn JoVonn

September 16, 2024

Thousands of free and enslaved Black individuals buried in unmarked graves at a Louisville cemetery were honored this weekend.

Thousands of free and enslaved Black individuals buried in unmarked graves at a Louisville cemetery have been honored.

WLKY reports that the ceremony took place during Black History Month at Saint Louis Cemetery in Tyler Park, four years after the unmarked graves were discovered during research conducted by a local deacon. It is part of the ‘Saint Louis Cemetery East Slope Project,’ which seeks to identify and mark the unmarked graves.

The deacon uncovered an undeveloped field, which turned out to be a segregated section of land known as ‘East Slope,’ the Black section of a segregated cemetery. The unmarked graves discovered include those of several U.S. troops, Louis Hunter and Thomas Nichols, soldiers in the 107th United States Colored Infantry during the Civil War, one of Louisville’s first Black doctors, and Catharine and James Madison Smith, two agents of the Underground Railroad.

“They don’t have markers to show that they were here, that they lived and that they mattered, and so this event is a way of correcting that and giving voice to those identities by saying their names,” said Ned Berghausen, a deacon at St. Agnes Catholic Church.

According to the project website, East Slope contains the unmarked graves of 719 enslaved people, 690 of them identified as Catholic. They were buried between 1869 and 1923, with the majority of burials occurring in the 1880s and 1890s.

Although most Catholics were relocated from Western Cemetery by the 1880s, it remains unclear if Black Catholics were also moved. Many, if not most of those buried at East Slope were formerly enslaved or the children of enslaved individuals.

It took decades for some families to afford permanent markers. The only record of those buried was kept in a burial book at the cemetery office. Now, the names have been transferred to a digital database to ensure they are not forgotten.

“Immediately after emancipation, most of the first generation did not have much wealth accumulated,” explained Berghausen, who organized the Saint Louis Cemetery Project. “As enslaved people, their labor had been taken from them without compensation, and so they did not have money for markers.”

RELATED CONTENT: Family Of Former Slaver Apologizes For Role In Guyanese Slave Trade



Source link

Tags: BlackEnslavedFreeHonoredNamesPeople
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Sentenced To More Than 4 Years In Prison

by rmtsa
October 4, 2025
0
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Sentenced To More Than 4 Years In Prison

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Source: Sean “Diddy” Combs – Picture / Sean “Diddy” Combs – Picture provided by Canva...

Read more

Defense Lawyer Claims a Man Tried to Stab Mogul In Jail! • Hollywood Unlocked

by rmtsa
October 4, 2025
0
Defense Lawyer Claims a Man Tried to Stab Mogul In Jail! • Hollywood Unlocked

Diddy’s legal team is doing everything they can to get him out of the slammer. From personal statements from friends and family to an apology from Diddy himself,...

Read more

Diddy Sued by Woman Claiming He Sexually Assaulted Her in L.A. Club

by rmtsa
October 4, 2025
0
Diddy Sued by Woman Claiming He Sexually Assaulted Her in L.A. Club

Diddy Sued You Assaulted Me In A Club!!! Published October 3, 2025 8:00 PM PDT Diddy sexually assaulted a woman in a night club as she was celebrating...

Read more

Basketball Player Jailed For Cannabis Gummies In Indonesia

by rmtsa
October 4, 2025
0
Basketball Player Jailed For Cannabis Gummies In Indonesia

by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton October 3, 2025 'They’re making it seem like I’m this big drug dealer. Why would I bring the candy here to sell? It...

Read more

Every Must-See Celebrity Sighting at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2026

by rmtsa
October 3, 2025
0
Every Must-See Celebrity Sighting at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2026

Jenna Ortega attends the Givenchy Womenswear Spring/Summer 2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 3, 2025 in Paris, France Getty Jenna Ortega attends the Givenchy...

Read more
Next Post
RHOC’s Alexis Bellino Accuses Shannon of Lying About Finances

RHOC's Alexis Bellino Accuses Shannon of Lying About Finances

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • Connections Help, Hints & Clues for Today, October 4
  • Cassie’s Camp Responds To Diddy’s Sentencing
  • ‘Ballard’ Renewed for Season 2 at Prime Video

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In