Bruslie, Monroe Slave Cemeteries Now Preserved And Protected
Submitted by News Staff on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 5:00am
By Pam Folse Contributing Writer
The people we honor today provided wealth, privilege and opportunity for their owners and the descendants of those owners for generations while their own descendants were emancipated into Jim Crow, segregation and its persisting aftermath,” said Ingrid Palmquist of Maryland during the memorial service and marker dedication of the Bruslie Plantation and Monroe Plantation ceremonies. Shell Convent Refinery acquired the former site of the 20-acre, 147- year old Tezcuco Plantation after the antebellum mansion burned to the ground in May 2002
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