Hidden History: Dilapidated Prewitt slave cemetery sparks conversation, questions

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The old Prewitt slave cemetery, located in Tuscaloosa County, was used and cared for over generations. Now this place and its painful legacy is endangered, facing logging crews nearby along with nature’s takeover alongside the passage of time.

 During the 1820s, slave owner John Welch Prewitt established the 2-acre burial ground on his 6,000-acre estate.

For years, Prewitt’s great-great-great-granddaughter Eloise Prewitt has been doing what she can to keep the centuries-old location as a place reflective of its purpose: a quiet resting place for those who had little to call their own. More than 600 slaves are buried in the Northport cemetery overlooking Lake Tuscaloosa, and its last resident was buried around 1945.

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