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18th-Century College Dining Hall Excavated in North Carolina

Digs & Discoveries July/August 2019

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(Illustration: Otto Botticher, Union Prisoners at Salisbury, N, C., 1863. Courtesy of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Affiliated with Wake Forest University)

Digs & Discoveries May/June 2018

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(N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources)

Digs & Discoveries May/June 2015

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(Courtesy NC Department of Cultural Resources)

Letter from Virginia September 1, 2011

Thousands of escaped slaves made a new life in one of the world's most unwelcoming places—the Great Dismal Swamp, full of sink holes, thorns, snakes, bears, and bugs—for a chance at self-determination

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(Courtesy Dan Sayers)