Tomb of the Unknown Slave

ID: 2105
This file appears in: St. Augustine Catholic Church

In 2004, the parish dedicated a memorial entitled The Tomb of the Unknown Slave.
The creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Slave’s developed over twelve years after a suggestion by a lay rector to the church’s leader, Father LeDoux.

Courtesy of WikiCommons, Photo by Infrogmation, February, 2005.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TremeSlaveMonument.jpg

This file appears in: St. Augustine Catholic Church

By Christina Lawrence
Founded in 1841 by free people of color, St. Augustine is the oldest African-American parish in the United States. Civil Rights activists Homer Plessy and A.P. Tureaud were parishioners of St.…