Graves of enslaved people in SC’s oldest cemetery were unmarked for years. No more

South Carolina’s oldest municipal cemetery has long had a section where it was suspected people were buried, but no one knew for sure where the graves were.

It’s Section V of Springwood Cemetery, located in downtown Greenville, that was used as a potter’s field for African Americans, some believed to have been enslaved, and indigent whites.

Researchers believe there are some 2,000 unmarked graves…

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