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Contraband and Freedmen's Cemetery Memorial
A presentation by Fran Bromberg about the creation, forgetting, and rededication of the cemetery on South Washington Street
Finding Descendants from Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery
Char McCargo Bah explained how she found descendants from among more than 1,750 people buried in Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery--who can now celebrate their ancestors, many of whom escaped slavery.