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Image Description: | Oak Ridge, Tennessee - The Wheat African Burial Ground, a slave cemetery. As many as 100 unnamed slaves are thought to be buried in this small cemetery. Most of the graves are unmarked; a few are marked with rough stones. The community of Wheat was destroyed during World War II when the government took the land for nuclear weapons production. |
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