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Unknown Slave

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Nov 08, 2025
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The following text is from a plaque installed by St. Augustine parishioners to commemorate the “Tomb of the Unknown Slave.”

“On this October 30, 2004, we, the Faith Community of St. Augustine Catholic Church, dedicate this shrine consisting of grave crosses, chains and shackles to the memory of the nameless, faceless, turfless Africans who met an untimel…

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