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Monday, February 14, 2011

Slaves Hid African Charms on Colonial Greenhouse

The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where the infamous abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid distinctly African touches within it to ward off bad spirits, researchers said.

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