Family is Concerned About the Fate of an Old Slave Cemetery

SWEET BRIAR, VA - APRIL 06: Jasper Fletcher hold a family photo featuring his brother Norman Fletcher (4th from right) taken at a Christmas party in 1957. Fletcher still farms land (near Sweet Briar College) that's been in the family since reconstruction. Bethany Pace and Annette Anderson (they are cousins) have made it a project to keep tabs on the fate of the Sweet Briar Plantation Burial Grounds where many slaves who built and worked the plantation are buried. As the Sweet Briar College faces closure they are determined to protect the the place where some of their kin are buried (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)