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Sandburg site, once home to slaves, and St. John commemorate start of slavery

By Bill Moss, Published: August 23, 2019

FLAT ROCK — Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site and St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church will join national parks and communities across the nation to commemorate the first landing of enslaved Africans 400 years ago in English-occupied North America at Virginia’s Point Comfort, now part of Fort Monroe National Monument.

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