The burial ground at Brattonsville

South Carolina · USA · Cemetery

A three foot stone in the woods off Burkins Road marks Watt's grave. A rock lying flat behind it covers his wife.

In the woods off Burkins Road at Brattonsville, South Carolina lies the burial ground of the people who were enslaved on this plantation.

Most of the graves are unmarked. What visitors find instead is uneven ground, and each of those depressions is somebody.

One stone stands about three feet high, worn nearly past reading. It belongs to a man named Watt, and the fact that he has a stone at all indicates the position he held. Behind it a rock lies flat on the ground, and his wife is beneath it.

Brattonsville is a documented site and Watt is a documented person, which is more than can be said for almost anyone buried in a place like this.

This is a cemetery. The people in it were held in slavery on the land it sits on, and they were buried by their own families in the only way available to them. It should be visited on those terms or not at all.

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The burial ground at Brattonsville liegt in South Carolina, USA.