Freedmen’s Contraband Cemetery Dedication

Alexandrians celebrated the dedication of Freedmen’s Contraband Cemetery with a series of events from September 3 through 7. The City redeveloped the cemetery site into the Contrabands and Freedman Cemetery Memorial to honor the lives and memory of the Freedmen, the hardships they faced in their struggle to freedom and their contributions to the city. Since the memorial project began, over a thousand descendants of those buried at the site have been identified and located and many participated in the dedication ceremony.