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museum inters 200-year-old remains of Black Philadelphians

The remains of 19 Black Philadelphians have finally been laid to rest, almost 200 years after they were stolen and corralled into the Morton Cranial Collection, the world’s largest 19th-century assemblage of human skulls. The individuals’ bones had been used to provide pseudo-scientific justification for white supremacy in the lead-up to the American civil war. […]