Tallahassee, Fla. — 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.

A sign for the Capital City Country Club is seen on Oct. 22, 2025 in Tallahassee, Fla. Kate Payne / AP

Across the country, many thousands of unmarked and forgotten cemeteries of ensla

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