Tuesday, March 28th 2017, from 5:30-7:30pm, at the Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Auditorium (1250 East Marshall Street, #8, Richmond VA), VCU is hosting a panel titled "Tapping the Well: Community-Informed Study, Memorialization & Reburial," with members of the East Marshall Street Well Project Family Representatives Council.
The panel concerns what is to be done with the human remains that were discovered discarded in a well beneath the VCU Medical Campus in 1994, during construction of the Kontos building. Analysis has since revealed that the remains belonged to at least 53 people, most of them of African descent, and were discarded in the early half of the 1800s. It is now understood that the remains were cadavers stolen from Black cemeteries to provide anatomical specimens for medical students.
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