As part of this week’s Florida Emancipation Day observance, dozens of people were taking a bus tour of some of Tallahassee’s oldest grave sites on Monday, April 18. These ancient cemeteries contain the remains of enslaved people who made up the majority of the community’s residents before the Civil War.
The Betton Hills Neighborhood is one of those grave sites. It’s a final resting place for those who labored at the old Winthrop Plantation, which encompassed the property. Tallahassee historian Dr. Larry Rivers was giving cemetery visitors an appreciation for its importance.
“I really think it’s so appropriate that we remember those enslaved human beings who helped to build Florida.”…