Bill Richmond 
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SOURCE: NYT
10-25-18
200 Years On, U.K. Hunts for Grave of Man Called World’s 1st Black Sports Star
One of London’s main rail stations is being redeveloped, prompting the excavation of a burial ground containing the remains of an estimated 45,000 Londoners, including the boxer Bill Richmond, a freed American slave.
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