It’s been more than 20 years since construction workers at Virginia Commonwealth University unearthed the remains of about fifty people in an old well near the Medical College of Virginia. Historians believe they were the bones of former slaves, whose bodies were stolen from local cemeteries for dissection by medical students. VCU promptly sent the remains to the Smithsonian for storage, but they may soon be coming back to Richmond as Sandy Hausman reports.
(July 16, 2015)
Virginia Public Radio 