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Jones is a descendant of enslaved people working at the iron forge where ammunition for the Revolutionary War was famously made, between the founding of the place in 1774 and into the 1830s.

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP) While the more-than-half-acre (0.2 hectares) site was designated as a cemetery for people who were enslaved in 1750, it might have been in use before then.