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they didn't have any names.
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Then they made them proper graves
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and they built a fence all the way around this cemetery,
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about 100 yards long and fity, sixty yards deep,
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and they whitewashed the fence
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and over an archway they painted the inscription
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"martyrs of the racecourse."
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And then on May 1st 1865
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they held a parade of 10,000 people, on the racetrack,
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led by 3000 black children
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carrying armloads of roses and singing John Brown's Body,
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followed then by black women,