Plan to sell golf course built on slaves' graves sparks outrage in Florida's capital city
- Posted on October 22, 2025
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Plan to sell golf course built on slaves' graves sparks outrage in Florida's capital city
A dark history long buried under the towering live oak trees and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida’s capital city of Tallahassee is reviving painful memories of the community's segregated past and fueling some residents' calls for a public reckoning. Under the rolling hills of the Capital City Country Club in one of Tallahassee's most sought-after neighborhoods, the evidence of Florida's slave-holding past lies just beneath the surface, in the form of the long-lost burial grounds of enslaved people who lived and died on the plantation that once sprawled with cotton there.