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Facebook petition asking Green Mountain College to spare the school’s beloved oxen team from slaughter has racked up more than 30,000 signatures from all over the world. But school officials say they won’t change
their mind.
Over 60 members of the Brace family were in Poultney on Sunday to celebrate the unveiling of a new historic marker that honors their common ancestor – former slave and Poultney resident, Jeffrey Brace.
Nina Keck was there and filed this report.
A former slave
whose memoir is among the only ones known to describe abduction from Africa
is about to get a historical marker in Poultney, where he ended up settling.