Brattonsville

On the grounds of Historic Brattonsville in York County is one of the largest enslaved burial grounds in the Carolina Piedmont. Over the weekend, descendants of those enslaved at the former plantation and descendants of the owning family gathered to remember and honor the hundreds buried there.

When Captain James Williams was murdered in York County on March 7, 1871, the investigation that followed included federal agents and the US Supreme Court.Williams’ life as an enslaved person at Historic Brattonsville and later as a civil rights leader during Reconstruction, has been grafted into the larger story of slavery, emancipation and pursuit of freedom that’s told through the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network.

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