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I have never seen the students so engaged. They had no idea how many places in our city are echoes of enslavement.
One student researched the Oxmoor Mall, which was once the Oxmoor Plantation. She found out that it was owned by the Bullitt family, who enslaved dozens of people on the property and have a county named after them.
I encouraged the student to look deeper to see if she could find any documents that named the enslaved, and she found a will that named several people.
The student wrote a poem about the place where people now shop and play Topgolf, that has no mention of what used to happen there. The art piece was a picture of Topgolf surrounded by the names she found in the will. She was also inspired to contact the mall managers to ask them to recognize those who once lived and worked on the property.
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