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A small memorial to enslaved African Americans at the Farmington Historic Plantation, a living-history museum in Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, which lies along the winding Ohio River across from the state of Indiana

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  1. African American Memorials
  2. African Americans
  3. America
  4. Color
  5. Digital Photographs
  6. Farmington Historic Plantation
  7. Jefferson County
  8. John Speed
  9. Kentucky
  10. Living History Museums
  11. Louisville
  12. Lucy Speed
  13. United States

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