Among the stratospherically priced real estate parcels in Washington, D.C.'s oldest historic neighborhood sit the final resting places of free blacks, slaves and freedmen who peacefully coexisted with their white neighbors decades before the Civil War. Today buildings go up as fast as rent, but despite a townhouse developer's best efforts, the cemeteries' occupants aren't going anywhere. Georgetown, a Potomac […]
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