Full of modern day coffee shops, trendy restaurants and boutiques, it may be hard to imagine a time when downtown Raleigh was instead full of sprawling fields, plantation houses – and hundreds of enslaved individuals.
Source: WRAL News
What did Juneteenth mean for the thousands freed from slavery in Raleigh?
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