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When they found them, all of the work had to stop.

These items were just too significant and important to risk destroying them.

And it's a good thing they did too because what the researchers discovered was a rare

and special find.

You see, back in 2021, the National Park Service in Virginia was in the middle of a massive

rehabilitation of an old historic home on the site of a former plantation.

They were working on a room that's in the middle of the 1800s had been the living quarters

for the Grey family, married couple Selena and Thornton and their children, but the

Grey's weren't the owners of the house.

No they were the enslaved family who worked for them.

Now, this discovery was made below the floor.

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