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The remains of three slaves who died on a plantation that is now part of Kingsmill will be reinterred Monday, during a ceremony led by the top leaders of the Episcopal church.
It is the culmination of a campaign by the Rev. Jan Brown to bring back the skeletal remains of slaves that had been held for decades at the Smithsonian Institution.
They died and were originally buried in the Pettus Plantation and the adjacent Utopia sites in James City County, but were disinterred in the course of work to develop the Kingsmill resort.
“These ancestors have waited a long time to come home,” said Brown. “The least we can do is take the time to receive them well.”
Brown is an Episcopal priest and founder of the SpiritWorks Foundation Center for the Soul, an addiction recovery group. She worked with the church on a 49-day effort to discuss and learn from the history of slavery in an effort that began on Holy Cross Day, Sept. 14, and culminates on All Souls’ Day Monday.