Gravesite Seashells

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Seashells and broken pottery, like these at Antioch Baptist Cemetery in Fayetteville, Georgia, were often used to decorate the graves of African American and formerly enslaved people.

Courtesy of Marlene Koslowsky

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Seashells on a gravesite at Antioch Baptist Cemetery

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