YORK COUNTY, S.C. — A powerful piece of history is now open to the public in the Carolina Piedmont: one of the largest known burial sites of enslaved individuals in the region.
At Historic Brattonsville in York County, at least 481 souls once lost to time are now honored and remembered.
For three years, historians and preservationists worked to carefully unearth a past long hidden beneath the soil and restore dignity to those whose names were erased by time…