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Black graves are being moved to make way for an industrial park, drawing emotions

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The mostly unidentified remains are being moved from a site that had been part of one of the nation’s largest slave-owning operations.

Some of the remains of tenant farmers and their families are already in a funeral home but will be moved to the new burial site.

Officials have been consulting with descendants about genetic testing on unidentified remains.

Virginia 's Department of Historical Resources granted a permit in late November to move the graves.

The industrial authority has raised $1.3 million from logging the land to fund the project.

The firm hopes to finish transferring the graves by early March .

Descendants are reviewing funeral home records to try to identify those buried in unmarked graves.

VR Score

90

Informative language

91

Neutral language

67

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

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not offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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