TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Local officials in Florida's capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved people to a once-segregated country club, despite vocal opposition from local residents and historians.

Evidence of Florida’s slave-holding past lies just beneath the surface of the manicured greens of the Capital City Country Club in one of Tallahassee’s most sought-after neighborhoods, 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.

The Tallahassee City Commission voted 3 to 2 on Wednesday to sell the publicly owned 178-acre (72-hectare) golf course to the politically connected country club for $1.255 million.

The graves beneath the golf course

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