Three graduate students in archaeology worked with the Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission in Newport, Rhode Island, to create an interactive map of God’s Little Acre, one of the oldest African and African American burial grounds in the country.
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With Historians in Newport, Rhode Island, Brown University Archaeologists Preserve a Crucial Piece of African American History
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