i get all that but 100 UNMARKED graves??
UNMARKED? why? didnt they have names?
they need to know who these kids are. and while they are at it it would be nice to know how they died.
what if...
what if it was skull fractures or the like.
each life is precious to me.
sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Probably most institutions of the time were full of unmarked graves, since many of the people who went to these institutions were only marginally attached to their families, particularly in the rural South, where life was hard and nobody, black or white, had the time to spare for somebody who was either mentally disturbed or a behavior problem.
I would doubt that these kids died from skull fractures. If they were working for the institution - the kids spent a lot of time clearing brush and doing other such chores on the local area, bringing income to the institution - it surely would not have been to anybody’s advantage to kill them.
I know people who are working on this site, btw. I’m sure you’ll find that it was mostly natural causes, and I’d bet a lot of it was connected to malnutrition or pre-antibiotic infections and affected both blacks and whites in their separate institutions. People who are in a weakened condition are more susceptible to things such as heat exhaustion, cold (it drops into the 20s at night in that part of Florida), and infections.
This should be an interesting view into what things were like only about 60 years ago. We don’t realize how much things have changed since the 1930s-40s, mostly because of scientific developments during and after WWII.