Hundreds of enslaved and free Black laborers helped build Emory & Henry. Students unearthed their buried stories.

Students at Emory and Henry College in Southwest Virginia have spent the past semester uncovering the names of hundreds of people who were enslaved at the college, before and during the Civil War.

As Roxy Todd reports, they produced a short video, meant as a memorial to those whose stories would otherwise have been overlooked.

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