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There were 419 skeletons of enslaved people exhumed and reburied there in 1991.
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Herb Boyd, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
Major publishers and small presses are reissuing novels long out of print, exhuming unpublished manuscripts from celebrated writers, and championing unpopular works dismissed for their abstraction or difficulty.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2025
He’s agreed to exhume his life, now clearly nearing its end, for a film crew, whom his wife Emma (Uma Thurman) feels might be exploiting him while encouraging the interview nonetheless.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
The scientist noted in his journal at the time that the skulls were not exhumed and had been freely given.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
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Herb Boyd, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
Major publishers and small presses are reissuing novels long out of print, exhuming unpublished manuscripts from celebrated writers, and championing unpopular works dismissed for their abstraction or difficulty.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2025
He’s agreed to exhume his life, now clearly nearing its end, for a film crew, whom his wife Emma (Uma Thurman) feels might be exploiting him while encouraging the interview nonetheless.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
The scientist noted in his journal at the time that the skulls were not exhumed and had been freely given.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
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