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There's an apartment complex in Knoxville, TN that's sitting on top of a massacre site from the 1780's. One of my parents' neighbors is the archeologist at UT that excavated the site. The apartment developers were greatly pissed off that their project got put on hold for about 6 months but it turned out that there were some major finds, like bodies, equipment, etc. that differed from the survivors' stories. Historically speaking, those are just the breaks for developers and there's little or nothing that's not worth delaying to properly bury the dead and discover their story.
Cynthetiq, the Manahattan story is pretty good version of how the system should work. Those slaves were parents and siblings and deserved the respect that they got.
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