The University of Richmond has discovered nails and discolored blocks of soil on campus believed to be gravesites. The school plans to excavate the graves and rebury any human remains at a nearby memorial, UR recently announced.
Since 2020, the university has known its campus is home to a cemetery for enslaved workers who lived about 180 years ago on a plantation that is now UR.
The newly found graves, discovered near the cemetery, are the university’s latest effort to respectfully tend to human remains neglected by past generations of school leaders.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times Dispatch.
