Burying Ground memorial dedication held at University of Richmond
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A consecration and dedication ceremony took place at the University of Richmond on Wednesday for the permanent memorial to the enslaved people buried on the school's historic campus.
UR graduate student Shelby Driskill began researching the site in 2018 with her Paths to the Burying Ground project, which explored the history of "what may have been a burying ground" and the lives "of those who were enslaved on the property."
That led the university to recommend Driskill continue her research on the land, which the school first acquired in 1910.
"There is an undeveloped hill close to the center of the University of Richmond campus," reads a section of the introduction from Paths to the Burying Ground. "It rises up from the corner of a parking lot, shaded by pine and oak trees, then slopes down to the base of the university's gothic-inspired Steam Plant. Nothing marks it. One could spend years on the campus and never notice the place, yet evidence indicates that it sits at the heart of intersecting histories of enslavement and erasure."
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