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Archaeologists Went Digging in a Colonial Garden—and Learned Quite a Bit About the Enslaved Population
That status symbol discovered beneath the soil of the Colonial Williamsburg living history museum? An ornamental garden once owned ... through his letters to British botanist Peter Collinson ...
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Archaeologists in Virginia unearth colonial-era garden with clues about its enslaved gardeners
(AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish ... trimmed into balls and pyramids. The garden’s legacy has lived on through Custis’ correspondence with British ...