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Opinion: Letter to the Editor: How Enslaved People Came to be Called “Contrabands”

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We much appreciated Jeanne Theismann’s front-page article regarding an historic first for the Commonwealth: the inclusion of Alexandria’s Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery, the burial place of about 1,800 African Americans, in the national African American Civil Rights Network.

Source: The Connection Newspapers

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