1 00:00:09,376 --> 00:00:20,019 PRESENTS," REVISITING THE PAST. >> I GREW UP A VERY, VERY MEAN WOMAN. BECAUSE OF ALL WHAT HAPPENED TO 2 00:00:20,086 --> 00:00:23,056 ME. >> YOU LEARNED THAT HERE, YOU THINK? >> YEAH. 3 00:00:23,123 --> 00:00:33,666 >> SHE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE. MORE THAN 150,000 CHILDREN WERE SENT TO RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS, WHICH CANADA'S FIRST PRIME 4 00:00:33,733 --> 00:00:39,005 MINISTER SUPPORTED TO, IN HIS HIS WORDS, SEVER CHILDREN FROM THE TRIBE AND CIVILIZE THEM. >> MY NAME WAS NUMBER 65 FOR ALL 5 00:00:39,072 --> 00:00:49,649 THOSE YEARS. >> JUST A NUMBER? >> JUST A NUMBER, YEP. 65, PICK, THAT UP. 6 00:00:49,716 --> 00:00:56,656 65, WHY DID YOU DO THAT, IDIOT? >> WE'RE GOING TO GATHER HERE. >> THE MILLERS ARE A LARGE FAMILY THAT ENJOYED GETTING 7 00:00:56,723 --> 00:01:04,297 TOGETHER. THEY PURCHASED THIS HISTORIC HOUSE IN SOUTHERN VIRGINIA NEAR WHERE THEY GREW UP, TO HAVE A 8 00:01:04,364 --> 00:01:10,203 PLACE FOR FAMILY CELEBRATIONS. >> THIS IS AN ORIGINAL ROOM FROM THE 1800s. >> BUT NO ONE COULD HAVE 9 00:01:10,270 --> 00:01:17,076 IMAGINED HOW THE HISTORY OF THE HOME AND ITS GROUNDS WOULD CHANGE EVERYTHING THEY THOUGHT THEY KNEW ABOUT THEIR FAMILY'S 10 00:01:17,143 --> 00:01:23,082 HISTORY. >> IT'S LIKE A FULL CIRCLE. LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO HAPPEN. TO ME, IT WAS MEANT TO HAPPEN. 11 00:01:23,149 --> 00:01:33,760 >> THIS IS GOD. THIS IS WHERE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE. >>> GOOD EVENING, I'M LESLEY 12 00:01:33,827 --> 00:01:40,133 STAHL. WELCOME TO "60 MINUTES PRESENTS." TONIGHT, “REVISITING THE PAST.” 13 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:47,540 WE'LL LOOK AT STORIES FROM HISTORY THAT CARRY LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT. WE BEGIN WITH OUR STORY OF 14 00:01:47,607 --> 00:01:58,651 CANADA'S UNMARKED GRAVES. IN MAY 2021, WHEN ARCHEOLOGISTS DETECTED WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE 200 UNMARKED GRAVES AT AN OLD 15 00:01:58,718 --> 00:02:08,528 SCHOOL IN CANADA, IT BROUGHT NEW ATTENTION TO ONE OF THE MOST SHAMEFUL CHAPTERS OF THAT NATION'S HISTORY. 16 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:17,337 STARTING IN THE 1880s AND MUCH OF THE 20th CENTURY, MORE THAN 150,000 CHILDREN FROM HUNDREDS OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ACROSS 17 00:02:17,403 --> 00:02:25,144 CANADA, WERE FORCIBLY TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS BY THE GOVERNMENT AND SENT TO WHAT WERE CALLED RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS. 18 00:02:25,211 --> 00:02:32,552 FUNDED BY THE STATE AND RUN BY CHURCHE, THEY WERE DESIGNED TO ASSIMILATE AND CHRISTIANIZE INDIGENOUS CHILDREN BY RIPPING 19 00:02:32,619 --> 00:02:41,528 THEM FROM THEIR PARENTS, THEIR CULTURE, AND THEIR COMMUNITY. THE CHILDREN WERE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS SAVAGES AND FORBIDDEN FROM 20 00:02:41,594 --> 00:02:49,102 SPEAKING THEIR LANGUAGES OR PRACTICING THEIR TRADITIONS. AS ANDERSON COOPER FIRST REPORTED LAST YEAR, MANY WERE 21 00:02:49,168 --> 00:02:59,045 PHYSICALLY AND SEXUALLY ABUSED, AND THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN NEVER MADE IT HOME. >> THE LAST OF CANADA'S 139 22 00:02:59,112 --> 00:03:06,486 RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN CLOSED IN 1998. MOST HAVE BEEN TORN DOWN, BUT 23 00:03:06,553 --> 00:03:16,696 THE MUSKOWEKWAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL IN SASKATCHEWAN STILL STANDS. ITS WINDOWS BOARDED UP. 24 00:03:16,763 --> 00:03:20,300 ITS ROOMS GUTTED. A REMINDER TO A NATION THAT WOULD RATHER FORGET. A THREE-STOREY TOMBSTONE FOR 25 00:03:20,366 --> 00:03:29,842 GENERATIONS OF CHILDREN WHO DIED HERE. >> SOMETIMES I WISH IT WOULD BE GONE FOR ALL WHAT HAPPENED HERE. 26 00:03:29,909 --> 00:03:34,247 >> Reporter: YOU WISH THIS HAD BEEN TORN DOWN? >> YEAH. I COULD HEAR EVERYTHING IN HERE, 27 00:03:34,314 --> 00:03:42,555 WHAT WAS DONE. IT LINGERS. >> Reporter: LEONA WOLF WAS 5 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE SAYS SHE WAS 28 00:03:42,622 --> 00:03:48,561 TAKEN FROM HER HOME IN 1960. SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND POLICE WOULD OFTEN SHOW UP UNANNOUNCED IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND 29 00:03:48,628 --> 00:03:53,433 ROUND UP CHILDREN, SOME AS YOUNG AS 3. PARENTS COULD BE JAILED IF THEY REFUSED TO HAND THEIR CHILDREN 30 00:03:53,499 --> 00:03:59,806 OVER. WHEN KIDS ARRIVED AT THEIR SCHOOLS, THEIR TRADITIONAL LONG HAIR WAS SHAVED OFF. 31 00:03:59,872 --> 00:04:05,144 IF THEY TRIED TO SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE, THEY WERE OFTEN PUNISHED. >> THEY PUT ME IN A LITTLE DARK 32 00:04:05,211 --> 00:04:12,885 ROOM LIKE THAT. AND THEY'D SHUT THE DOOR AND THEN THEY'D TAKE OFF THE LIGHT. ALL I HAD TO LOOK THROUGH WAS 33 00:04:12,952 --> 00:04:23,496 THIS MUCH LIGHT, LIKE I WAS IN JAIL. >> SHE SAYS THE ABUSE MANY KIDS AT MUSKOWEKWAN SUFFERED FROM THE 34 00:04:23,563 --> 00:04:30,370 CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND NUNS WASN'T JUST PHYSICAL. >> FATHER JOYAL WAS FONDLING THE GIRLS HERE. 35 00:04:30,436 --> 00:04:34,774 >> REPORTER: A PRIEST, FATHER JOYAL, WAS FONDLING GIRLS IN THIS ROOM? >> YEAH. THIS USED TO BE SICK 36 00:04:34,841 --> 00:04:39,379 BAY. THEY USED TO HAVE A BED HERE. >> REPORTER: AND HE WOULD TAKE GIRLS INTO THE BED? 37 00:04:39,445 --> 00:04:44,183 >> YEAH, MY COUSIN. >> REPORTER: HE TOOK YOUR COUSIN IN HERE? HOW OLD WAS SHE? 38 00:04:44,250 --> 00:04:52,025 >> SHE WAS ONLY 8. I GREW UP A VERY, VERY MEAN WOMAN BECAUSE OF ALL WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. 39 00:04:52,091 --> 00:04:59,599 >> REPORTER: YOU LEARNED THAT HERE, YOU THINK? >> YEAH. >> SHE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE. 40 00:04:59,666 --> 00:05:07,306 MORE THAN 150,000 CHILDREN WERE SENT TO RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS, WHICH CANADA'S FIRST PRIME MINISTER SUPPORTED TO, IN HIS 41 00:05:07,373 --> 00:05:15,081 WORDS, SEVER CHILDREN FROM THE TRIBE AND CIVILIZE THEM. FOR MUCH OF THE 20th CENTURY, THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT 42 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:22,755 SUPPORTED THAT MISSION. THIS REPORT AIRED IN 1955. >> THEY LEARN NOT ONLY GAMES AND TRADITIONS SUCH AS THE 43 00:05:22,822 --> 00:05:29,595 CELEBRATION OF SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, BUT THE MASTERY OF WORDS. >> THE IDEA FOR THE SCHOOLS CAME IN PART FROM THE UNITED STATES. 44 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:35,268 IN 1879 THE CARLISLE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL OPENED IN PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN OF NATIVE AMERICAN 45 00:05:35,334 --> 00:05:45,044 CHILDREN WHEN THEY FIRST ARRIVED. THIS IS THEM FOUR MONTHS LATER. THE SCHOOL'S MOTTO WAS “KILL THE 46 00:05:45,111 --> 00:05:53,219 INDIAN, SAVE THE MAN." >> CONSEQUENTLY, OURS WAS, KILL THE INDIAN IN THE CHILD. >> Reporter: KILL THE INDIAN IN 47 00:05:53,286 --> 00:05:59,826 THE CHILD? >> UH-HUH. >> Reporter: THAT WAS THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE HERE IN CANADA 48 00:05:59,892 --> 00:06:07,567 CANADA? >> YEAH. >> CHIEF WILL TON LITTLECHILD, WHO WAS CREE, WAS 6 YEARS OLD 49 00:06:07,633 --> 00:06:13,606 WHEN HE WAS TAKEN TO THIS RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL IN ALBERTA. THEN, HE SAYS, HE WAS GIVEN A NEW NAME. 50 00:06:13,673 --> 00:06:18,478 >> MY NAME WAS 65 FOR ALL THOSE YEARS. >> Reporter: JUST A NUMBER? >> YEAH. 51 00:06:18,544 --> 00:06:25,118 JUST A NUMBER. 65, PICK THAT UP, STUPID. OR 65, WHY DID YOU DO THAT, IDIOT? 52 00:06:25,184 --> 00:06:32,592 >> WHAT DOES THAT FEEL LIKE AT 6 YEARS OLD TO BE CALLED A NUMBER? >> WELL, I THINK THAT'S WHERE THE TRAUMA BEGINS. 53 00:06:32,658 --> 00:06:36,996 NOT JUST THE PHYSICAL ABUSE, PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE, SPIRITUAL ABUSE. AND WORST OF ALL, SEXUAL ABUSE. 54 00:06:37,063 --> 00:06:43,503 >> REPORTER: YOU WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED. >> YES. I THINK THAT'S WHERE MY ANGER 55 00:06:43,569 --> 00:06:49,375 BEGAN AS A YOUNG BOY. >> CHIEF LITTLECHILD SAYS HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE SOME OF THAT ANGER OUT ON THE SCHOOL'S HOCKEY RINK. 56 00:06:49,442 --> 00:06:52,879 HE WON A SCHOLARSHIP TO UNIVERSITY AND GRADUATED, EVENTUALLY GOING ON TO A DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN LAW. 57 00:06:52,945 --> 00:07:00,353 BUT HIS STORY IS THE EXCEPTION. >> THEY DIDN'T KILL MY SPIRIT. SO, I'M STILL CREE. I'M STILL WHO I AM. 58 00:07:00,419 --> 00:07:10,997 I'M NOT 65. MY NAME IS MAHIGAN PIMOTEYW. SO, THEY DIDN'T KILL MY SPIRIT. >> IN 2008, AFTER THOUSANDS OF 59 00:07:11,063 --> 00:07:21,073 SCHOOL SURVIVORS FILED LAWSUITS, THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT FORMALLY APOLOGIZED FOR ITS POLICIES. IT ALSO SET UP A $1.9 BILLION 60 00:07:21,140 --> 00:07:28,481 COMPENSATION FUND AND ESTABLISHED A TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION THAT CHIEF LITTLECHILD HELPED LEAD. 61 00:07:28,548 --> 00:07:38,191 FOR SIX YEARS THE COMMISSION HEARD TESTIMONY FROM SURVIVORS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> AND SHE PUT ME UNDER WATER, 62 00:07:38,257 --> 00:07:46,465 SLAPPING ME AND HITTING ME, SLAPPING ME AND HITTING ME, AND PUNCHING ME AND PUNCHING ME AND HOLDING ME UNDER WATER, PULLING 63 00:07:46,532 --> 00:07:52,271 MY HAIR, AND I THOUGHT, GOD, SHE'S GOING TO KILL ME, I'M GOING TO DIE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. 64 00:07:52,338 --> 00:08:09,522 >> WE AS LITTLE BOYS AND LITTLE GIRLS, WE LOST OUR INNOCENCE. >> IN 2015 THE COMMISSION CONCLUDED WHAT HAPPENED WAS 65 00:08:09,589 --> 00:08:16,462 “CULTURAL GENOCIDE.”. IT IDENTIFIED MORE THAN 3,000 CHILDREN WHO DIED FROM DISEASE DUE TO OVERCROWDING, 66 00:08:16,529 --> 00:08:24,604 MALNUTRITION AND POOR SANITATION, OR DIED AFTER BEING ABUSED OR TRYING TO RUN AWAY. A GOVERNMENT STUDY IN 1909 FOUND 67 00:08:24,670 --> 00:08:31,510 THE DEATH RATE IN SOME SCHOOLS WAS AS HIGH AS 20 TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. MOST SCHOOLS HAD THEIR OWN 68 00:08:31,577 --> 00:08:39,986 CEMETERIES, AND SOMETIMES WHEN CHILDREN DIED, THEIR PARENTS WERE NEVER INFORMED. >> IT'S REALLY TRAUMATIC FOR 69 00:08:40,052 --> 00:08:47,026 THOSE FAMILIES WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR CHILD OR RELATIVE IN THE SCHOOLS. >> REPORTER: WHY WEREN'T KIDS 70 00:08:47,093 --> 00:08:52,899 WHO DIED AT THE SCHOOLS, WHY WEREN'T THEY SENT HOME? >> TO SAVE MONEY. >> ARCHEOLOGISTS DETECTED WHAT 71 00:08:52,965 --> 00:09:00,172 THEY SAID COULD BE 200 UNMARKED GRAVES AT THIS FORMER SCHOOL IN KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, IN MAY 2021. 72 00:09:00,239 --> 00:09:07,079 WEEKS LATER, A FURTHER 751 UNMARKED GRAVES WERE DETECTED ACROSS FROM THE FORMER MARIEVAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL ON THE 73 00:09:07,146 --> 00:09:12,885 COWESSESS RESERVE IN SASKATCHEWAN. THERE WAS ONCE A CATHOLIC CEMETERY HERE, BUT THE 74 00:09:12,952 --> 00:09:20,927 HEADSTONES WERE BULLDOZED IN THE 1960s BY A PRIEST AFTER A DISPUTE WITH A FORMER CHIEF. >> REPORTER: AND WHAT WERE THESE 75 00:09:20,993 --> 00:09:26,565 LISTS FOR? >> A SMALL TEAM OF RESEARCHERS HAS BEEN TRYING TO DISCOVER THE NAMES OF THOSE CHILDREN BURIED 76 00:09:26,632 --> 00:09:32,405 HERE, BUT FOR DECADES THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCH HAD BEEN RELUCTANT TO SHARE THEIR RECORDS. 77 00:09:32,471 --> 00:09:41,948 CHIEF CADMUS DELORME IS TRYING TO GET ANSWERS. >> REPORTER: DO YOU KNOW THAT THEY'RE ALL CHILDREN? 78 00:09:42,014 --> 00:09:46,185 >> WE CAN'T VERIFY HOW MUCH ARE CHILDREN, BUT BASED ON THE RESEARCH WE'RE DOING, A LOT OF THEM WERE CHILDREN THAT WERE 79 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:54,660 FORCED TO GO TO THE MARIEVAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL AND DIED IN THE MARIEVAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL. >> THE DISCOVERIES OF THE GRAVES 80 00:09:54,727 --> 00:10:02,568 OPENED DEEP WOUNDS. MORE THAN A DOZEN CHURCHES HAVE BEEN VANDALIZED OR DESTROYED, AND THOUSANDS HAVE MARCHED 81 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:11,444 DEMANDING THE POPE APOLOGIZE AND THE CHURCHES OPEN ARCHIVES TO HELP IDENTIFY ANY MISSING CHILDREN. 82 00:10:11,510 --> 00:10:16,515 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE BEGUN CONDUCTING THEIR OWN SEARCHES USING GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR. 83 00:10:16,582 --> 00:10:24,256 >> WE'VE LAID OUT A NUMBER OF GRIDS THROUGHOUT THIS LANDSCAPE. >> ARCHEOLOGISTS KISHA SUPERNANT AND TERRY CLARK SAY 35 UNMARKED 84 00:10:24,323 --> 00:10:30,596 GRAVES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED AT THE MUSKOWEKWAN SCHOOL. >> THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON THERE THAT IS NOT NATURAL. 85 00:10:30,663 --> 00:10:36,969 >> WHEN WE WERE THERE IN OCTOBER 2021, THEY FOUND WHAT APPEARED TO BE ANOTHER. ACCORDING TO SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS, 86 00:10:37,036 --> 00:10:43,009 CHILDREN SOMETIMES HAD TO DIG THEIR CLASSMATES' GRAVES. >> REPORTER: THE PRIESTS OR THE SCHOOL OFFICIALS WOULD FORCE THE 87 00:10:43,075 --> 00:10:48,848 KIDS TO DIG OTHER CHILDREN'S GRAVES? >> YEP, YEP. CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING, LIKE, 10 88 00:10:48,914 --> 00:10:56,188 OR 11 AND DIGGING A GRAVE FOR YOUR CLASSMATE, WHAT THAT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE? >> KISHA SUPERNANT SAYS THE 89 00:10:56,255 --> 00:11:03,162 SEARCH FOR UNMARKED GRAVES WILL CONTINUE FOR YEARS. >> THIS IS VERY EMOTIONAL WORK. IT'S VERY DEVASTATING WORK. 90 00:11:03,229 --> 00:11:08,868 IT'S HEARTBREAKING FOR EVERYONE WHO'S INVOLVED. >> REPORTER: YOU FEEL THAT TOO? >> I DO. 91 00:11:08,934 --> 00:11:15,741 OUR COMMUNITIES STILL FEEL THE IMPACTS OF THESE INSTITUTIONS IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES. WE'RE WAY OVER-REPRESENTED IN 92 00:11:15,808 --> 00:11:21,580 CHILD WELFARE AND ADOPTIONS AND FOSTER CARE. WE'RE WAY OVER-REPRESENTED IN THE PRISONS. 93 00:11:21,647 --> 00:11:27,019 YOU CAN DRAW A DIRECT LINE WITH THAT TO THESE PLACES AND THE PAIN OF THAT, THAT HAS BEEN PASSED ON FROM GENERATION TO 94 00:11:27,086 --> 00:11:34,827 GENERATION. >> I STARTED SCHOOL HERE IN 1958. >> ED BITTERNOSE, WHO IS CREE, 95 00:11:34,894 --> 00:11:45,371 UNDERSTANDS THAT PAIN. HE WAS 8 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS TAKEN TO THE MUSKOWEKWAN SCHOOL. HIS PARENTS LIVED WITHIN SIGHT 96 00:11:45,438 --> 00:11:50,676 OF THE SCHOOL, AND WHEN HE TRIED TO RUN AWAY, HE SAYS THE PRIESTS FORCED HIM TO KNEEL ON A BROOM HANDLE FOR THREE DAYS. 97 00:11:50,743 --> 00:11:56,182 >> THAT'S WHERE MY HOUSE WAS. I WOULD SIT HERE AND WONDER WHY I COULDN'T BE HOME. >> REPORTER: THAT MUST HAVE BEEN 98 00:11:56,248 --> 00:12:04,490 DEVASTATING. >> YEAH. >> IT WASN'T ONLY ADULTS HE FEARED. 99 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:10,996 SOME STUDENTS, THEMSELVES VICTIMS OF ABUSE, PREYED ON OTHER CHILDREN. >> REPORTER: WERE YOU ABUSED 100 00:12:11,063 --> 00:12:22,908 HERE? >> YEAH, ACTUALLY IN THIS ROOM HERE, BY ONE OF THE -- ONE OF THE BOYS. 101 00:12:22,975 --> 00:12:29,281 >> REPORTER: IN THIS VERY ROOM? >> THIS VERY AREA HERE. >> LATER, HE SAYS, HE WAS ALSO SEXUALLY MOLESTED BY A NUN. 102 00:12:29,348 --> 00:12:33,719 WHEN HE LEFT SCHOOL, HE WAS RUDDERLESS AND VIOLENT AND TURNED TO ALCOHOL. WHEN HE GOT MARRIED, HE SAYS, HE 103 00:12:33,786 --> 00:12:41,227 DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO SHOW AFFECTION. >> REPORTER: YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT LOVE WAS? 104 00:12:41,293 --> 00:12:46,565 >> NO, NO, BECAUSE I NEVER FELT IT HERE. I DIDN'T START SAYING I LOVED HER TILL WE WERE MARRIED ABOUT 105 00:12:46,632 --> 00:12:52,805 40 YEARS, AND THEN I WAS VERY CAREFUL HOW I SAID IT. >> REPORTER: YOU DIDN'T SAY TO YOUR WIFE FOR 40 YEARS THAT YOU 106 00:12:52,872 --> 00:13:00,913 LOVED HER? >> UH-HUH, YEAH. >> HE SAYS HIS LIFE CHANGED WHEN HE BEGAN REDISCOVERING HIS CREE 107 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:05,317 CULTURE. RAISING BUFFALO AND SHARING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE WITH CHILDREN BROUGHT HEALING, AND 108 00:13:05,384 --> 00:13:11,891 FINALLY, AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD LOVE. >> REPORTER: YOU CAN SAY THAT NOW? 109 00:13:11,957 --> 00:13:21,767 >> I CAN SAY THAT NOW. AND IT FEELS GOOD AND I STILL JOKE WITH MY WIFE ABOUT THAT. DON'T SAY THAT TOO LOUD, YOU 110 00:13:21,834 --> 00:13:24,703 KNOW. >> Reporter: SO YOU CAN SAY IT, YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO SAY IT TOO LOUD? 111 00:13:24,770 --> 00:13:32,278 >> UH-HUH. >> Reporter: IT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING. >> THAT'S WHAT SHE SAYS. 112 00:13:32,344 --> 00:13:36,715 >> AS FOR LEONA WOLF, HER LIFE AND THE LIVES OF HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN HAVE BEEN PLAGUED BY VIOLENCE AND 113 00:13:36,782 --> 00:13:42,254 SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA, SHE SAYS, THAT BEGAN THE DAY HER OWN MOTHER WAS SENT TO SCHOOL AT 114 00:13:42,321 --> 00:13:52,731 MUSKOWEKWAN. >> REPORTER: DID YOU SEE THE IMPACT OF THIS PLACE ON YOUR MOM? 115 00:13:52,798 --> 00:13:55,868 >> YEAH, YEAH. >> Reporter: HOW? >> BY DRINKING A LOT, BEING MEAN TO ME. 116 00:13:55,935 --> 00:14:02,942 AND IT IMPACT US, ME AND MY BROTHER, AND MY SIBLINGS. >> Reporter: WHAT WAS DONE TO HER, SHE PASSED ONTO YOU? 117 00:14:03,008 --> 00:14:08,781 >> TO ME. >> Reporter: WHAT WAS DONE TO YOU AND OTHERS HERE -- >> WAS PASSED ONTO MY CHILDREN. 118 00:14:08,847 --> 00:14:18,290 THIS IS WHY SOMETIMES I GO INTO MY RAGE OF ANGER, AND I CRY, BECAUSE IT ALL -- IT WAS ALL DONE TO US, ALL OF US. 119 00:14:18,357 --> 00:14:28,334 BUT IT'S GONNA STOP NOW, YOU YOU KNOW, IT IS. >> Reporter: YOU BELIEVE THAT? >> I'M GOING -- I'M BREAKING THE 120 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:39,678 CYCLE WITH MY GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. ♪ HAIL MARY FULL OF GRACE ♪ >> LEONA WOLF HAS RETURNED TO 121 00:14:39,745 --> 00:14:43,749 HER TRADITIONS AS WELL. WALKING THE HALLS OF MUSKOWEKWAN, SHE BEGAN TO SING HAIL MARY, A PRAYER SHE WAS 122 00:14:43,816 --> 00:15:06,372 FORCED TO LEARN HERE LONG AGO. ♪ HEY HEY-A ♪ >> NOW SHE SINGS IT HER OWN WAY. ♪ HEY HEY-A HEY-O ♪ 123 00:15:06,438 --> 00:15:11,944 >> REPORTER: THAT'S NOT HOW YOU SANG IT HERE WHEN YOU WERE IN SCHOOL, THOUGH, WAS IT? >> NO. 124 00:15:12,011 --> 00:15:15,881 >> REPORTER: YOU MADE PEACE WITH THE VIRGIN MARY BY SINGING THAT SONG? >> YEAH, AND I MADE PEACE WITH 125 00:15:15,948 --> 00:15:18,784 MYSELF. >> SINCE OUR STORY FIRST AIRED, POPE FRANCIS TRAVELLED TO CANADA FOR WHAT HE CALLED A 126 00:15:18,851 --> 00:15:21,587 "PENITENTIAL PILGRIMAGE." HE APOLOGIZED AND BEGGED FOR FORGIVENESS FOR THE "DEPLORABLE" ABUSES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 127 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:24,189 SUFFERED IN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS 128 00:15:28,093 --> 00:15:36,268 FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. >>> JUST OFF THE SIDE OF THE ROAD SAT A GRAND WHITE HOUSE CALLED SHARSWOOD. 129 00:15:36,335 --> 00:15:43,175 SILENTLY HOLDING SECRETS FROM THE PAST. WAITING FOR A NEW OWNER TO UNCOVER THEM. 130 00:15:43,242 --> 00:15:49,715 SOUNDS LIKE THE OPENING LINE OF A SOUTHERN GOTHIC NOVEL, BUT AS WE FIRST REPORTED IN MAY OF LAST YEAR, THIS STORY IS ABOUT A REAL 131 00:15:49,782 --> 00:15:56,922 FAMILY. AND A REAL HOUSE. THIS COUNTRY'S HISTORY. AND A MAN WHO FOUND HIMSELF AT 132 00:15:56,989 --> 00:16:05,464 THE CENTER OF FAR MORE THAN HE HAD BARGAINED FOR. THE MAN IS FRED MILLER, A 57-YEAR-OLD AIR FORCE VETERAN 133 00:16:05,531 --> 00:16:13,939 WHO WAS LOOKING TO BUY PROPERTY IN HIS VIRGINIA HOMETOWN FOR HIS LARGE EXTENDED FAMILY'S FREQUENT GET-TOGETHERS. 134 00:16:14,006 --> 00:16:20,279 HE HAD NEVER HEARD THE NAME SHARSWOOD, AND YET THIS OLD HOUSE WOULD LEAD HIM ON A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY, WITH 135 00:16:20,346 --> 00:16:31,957 SURPRISES AND REVELATIONS THAT SEEM BOTH IMPOSSIBLE AND INEVITABLE ALL AT ONCE. >> THESE ARE THE GENTLE HILLS OF 136 00:16:32,024 --> 00:16:39,365 PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA -- QUIET, RURAL FARM COUNTRY NEAR THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER THAT ONCE PRODUCED MORE TOBACCO THAN 137 00:16:39,431 --> 00:16:46,271 ANY COUNTY IN THE STATE. >> HEY, WE'RE GONNA GATHER UP IN THIS ROOM HERE MAINLY. >> FRED MILLER GREW UP HERE IN A 138 00:16:46,338 --> 00:16:55,280 CLOSE FAMILY THAT LIKES GETTING TOGETHER REGULARLY FOR BIRTHDAYS, FISH FRIES, AND AS HIS COUSIN ADAM MILLER TOLD US, 139 00:16:55,347 --> 00:17:04,957 JUST ABOUT ANYTHING. >> WE PLAY GAMES, AND WE DO, LIKE, A LOT OF FOOD COMPETITIONS. 140 00:17:05,023 --> 00:17:11,897 >> I HEAR THE FOOD IS MAINLY CAKE. >> YEAH, TOO MANY CAKES. >> FRED'S COUSIN TONYA MILLER 141 00:17:11,964 --> 00:17:17,703 POPE AND HIS SISTER DEBRA COLES TOLD US IT'S A BIG FAMILY. FRED'S MOTHER BETTY AND HIS AUNT BRENDA WERE TWO OF 11. 142 00:17:17,770 --> 00:17:24,476 >> REPORTER: HOW MANY COUSINS? >> OH, MY. >> OH, MY. >> HUNDREDS. 143 00:17:24,543 --> 00:17:27,946 >> HUNDREDS. >> AT LEAST 100. >> REPORTER: SO NO WONDER FRED NEEDED TO FIND -- 144 00:17:28,013 --> 00:17:34,853 >> YES. >> A HUGE PLACE. >> EXACTLY. >> FRED LIVES IN CALIFORNIA, 145 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:40,426 WHERE HE WORKS AS A CIVIL ENGINEER FOR THE AIR FORCE, BUT HE VISITS THE FAMILY IN VIRGINIA OFTEN. 146 00:17:40,492 --> 00:17:47,633 >> ONE DAY OUT OF THE BLUE MY SISTER TOLD ME ABOUT A BIG HOUSE UP THE HILL FOR SALE. >> THIS SISTER RIGHT HERE? 147 00:17:47,699 --> 00:17:50,803 >> YEAH. KAREN DIXON-REXROTH, FRED'S BABY SISTER, HAD SPOTTED IT. >> ME AND MY MOM WAS RIDING PAST 148 00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:57,743 THE HOUSE, AND I SAW THE FOR SALE SIGN. I SAID, OH, MY GOODNESS, WE HAVE TO GET THIS HOUSE. 149 00:17:57,810 --> 00:18:04,016 I CALLED FRED. FRED, THIS HOUSE IS FOR SALE. HE'S LIKE, WHAT HOUSE? I SAID, YOU KNOW THE HOUSE. 150 00:18:04,082 --> 00:18:10,923 THE -- THE SCARY HOUSE, I CALL IT. >> THE “SCARY HOUSE” WAS LESS THAN A MILE UP THE ROAD FROM 151 00:18:10,989 --> 00:18:15,260 THEIR MOM'S. THEY'D PASSED IT EVERY DAY AS KIDS ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL. >> REPORTER: WHAT DID YOU KNOW 152 00:18:15,327 --> 00:18:23,168 ABOUT SHARSWOOD? >> ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. >> NOTHING. >> NOTHING. 153 00:18:23,235 --> 00:18:30,108 >> JUST KNEW IT WAS -- SAW THE HOUSE -- >> A BIG HOUSE. >> HE WAS DEBATING, SHOULD WE 154 00:18:30,175 --> 00:18:34,947 PUT IN A BID FOR IT? I SAID, YES, ABSOLUTELY, LET'S DO IT. >> REPORTER: DID SHE TWIST YOUR 155 00:18:35,013 --> 00:18:40,486 ARM? >> IT TOOK ALL THE TWISTING SHE COULD DO. BECAUSE I -- I DIDN'T WANT TO 156 00:18:40,552 --> 00:18:42,955 BUY IT. >> BUT THINKING HIS BID WOULD BE REJECTED ANYWAY, HE MADE AN OFFER OF JUST ABOVE THE $220,000 157 00:18:43,021 --> 00:18:45,724 ASKING PRICE. >> REPORTER: WHY DID YOU THINK THEY WEREN'T GOING TO ACCEPT THE OFFER? 158 00:18:45,791 --> 00:18:54,466 >> WELL, I MEAN, I'M-- INITIALLY, ME, I THOUGHT THAT BECAUSE I WAS BLACK THAT THEY WOULD NEVER -- SURELY THEY WOULD 159 00:18:54,533 --> 00:18:58,604 NEVER SELL THIS HOUSE TO SOMEONE THAT'S BLACK. SO FOR US TO BE ABLE TO OWN THIS THING, I THOUGHT IT WOULD NEVER 160 00:18:58,670 --> 00:19:06,478 HAPPEN. YEAH, IN A MILLION YEARS. >> Reporter: SO GUESS WHAT HAPPENED? 161 00:19:06,545 --> 00:19:16,188 >> A MILLION YEARS. >> Reporter: YES, ABSOLUTELY. >> SO IN MAY OF 2020, FRED MILLER PURCHASED THE 162 00:19:16,255 --> 00:19:25,697 FULLY FUNNISHED HOUSE PLUS 10 AND A HALF ACRES OF LAND FROM A FAMILY CALLED THOMPSONS, WHO HAD OWNED IT SINCE 1917. 163 00:19:25,764 --> 00:19:28,467 >> THE FIRST TIME I DROVE UP TO THE PLACE ALL I COULD DO IS STOP BY THE EDGE OF THE ROAD THERE AND JUST LOOK UP IN, IN 164 00:19:28,534 --> 00:19:32,738 AMAZEMENT. LIKE, WOW, THIS IS, THIS IS MINE. >> THIS IS AN ORIGINAL ROOM FROM 165 00:19:32,804 --> 00:19:37,509 THE 1800s. >> KAREN SAYS SHE GOT OBSESSED WITH THE HOUSE, SPENDING NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS ONLINE RESEARCHING 166 00:19:37,576 --> 00:19:46,885 ITS SECRETS. >> HIDING SPOT THEY SAY WAS FROM THE CIVIL WAR, SO THEY WOULD HIDE THE VALUABLES. 167 00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:53,025 >> Reporter: A SECRET HIDEAWAYS? >> YEAH. >> SHE DISCOVERED THE HOUSE HAD BEEN BUILT AROUND 1850, IN THE 168 00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:58,864 GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE, BY A WELL-KNOWN NEW YORK ARCHITECT. AND SHE LEARNED AND TOLD HER FAMILY THAT ITS NAME HAD BEEN 169 00:19:58,931 --> 00:20:05,904 SHARSWOOD. >> EVERY DAY SHE WAS CALLING ME WITH NEW INFORMATION. I'M LIKE, MY GOODNESS, OKAY, 170 00:20:05,971 --> 00:20:12,077 RELAX. >> REPORTER: ARE YOU EXAGGERATING? >> NO, NO. 171 00:20:12,144 --> 00:20:20,919 I'M NOT EXAGGERATING. >> BUT THEN KAREN TURNED UP SOMETHING THAT STUNNED HER. IN THE 1800s, SHARSWOOD HAD BEEN 172 00:20:20,986 --> 00:20:27,359 THE SEAT OF A MAJOR 1300-ACRE PLANTATION, ONE OF THE LARGEST ONES IN THE COUNTY. >> REPORTER: WHAT DID YOU THINK 173 00:20:27,426 --> 00:20:34,600 OF YOU OWNING A PLANTATION? >> I WAS A LITTLE BIT -- A LITTLE SHOCKED BY THAT, I WOULD SAY, BECAUSE I JUST WANTED 174 00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:38,670 SOMEWHERE TO HAVE FAMILY GATHERINGS. >> WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS A PLANTATION, AND THEN I'M LIKE, 175 00:20:38,737 --> 00:20:43,575 OKAY, FRED JUST BOUGHT A PLANTATION? >> RIGHT. >> I WAS LIKE, WE OWN, WE OWN A 176 00:20:43,642 --> 00:20:47,279 PLANTATION. >> YEAH, WHAT WE GONNA DO UP HERE? >> IT WAS JUST A FEELING OF JUST 177 00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:53,986 POWER. IT WAS JUST A POWERFUL FEELING. >> IT IS. >> POWERFUL. 178 00:20:54,052 --> 00:21:01,059 BUT OF COURSE, PLANTATION IMPLIES SLAVERY, AND BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR, PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY HELD MORE THAN 14,000 ENSLAVED 179 00:21:01,126 --> 00:21:10,602 PEOPLE. THE STATE OF VIRGINIA JUST UNDER 500,000. >> I SAID, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT 180 00:21:10,669 --> 00:21:16,842 THIS IS? THEY DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE. >> DEXTER MILLER, ONE OF FRED AND KAREN'S MANY SECOND COUSINS, 181 00:21:16,908 --> 00:21:24,783 KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT SHARSWOOD BECAUSE YEARS AGO, HE'D BEEN COWORKERS WITH BILL THOMPSON, WHOSE FAMILY THEN OWNED IT. 182 00:21:24,850 --> 00:21:30,589 BILL JOINED US FOR A CONVERSATION ON WHAT USED TO BE HIS CHILDHOOD PORCH. >> REPORTER: YOU GREW UP IN THIS 183 00:21:30,656 --> 00:21:36,361 HOUSE. >> I DID. THIS WAS MY HOME. >> HE INHERITED MUCH OF THE 184 00:21:36,428 --> 00:21:43,502 FARMLAND AND STILL LIVES UP THE ROAD. HIS SISTER INHERITED THE HOUSE AND SOLD IT TO FRED. 185 00:21:43,568 --> 00:21:49,875 >> REPORTER: YOU KNOW, WHEN FRED WAS BUYING THE HOUSE, HE DID NOT THINK THAT THE HOUSE WOULD BE SOLD TO A BLACK PERSON. 186 00:21:49,941 --> 00:21:57,649 >> WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT, FRED? >> WELL, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S -- I MEAN, WE'RE IN RURAL 187 00:21:57,716 --> 00:22:04,022 VIRGINIA, RIGHT? >> WELL, THIS IS TRUE. >> FOR YEARS, DEXTER AND ANOTHER SECOND COUSIN, SONYA 188 00:22:04,089 --> 00:22:14,866 WOMACK-MIRANDA, HAD BEEN TRYING TO PIECE TOGETHER THE MILLER FAMILY'S ORIGINS, A NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TASK FOR AFRICAN 189 00:22:14,933 --> 00:22:20,105 AMERICANS BECAUSE RECORDS ARE HARD TO COME BY, ESPECIALLY BEFORE 1865. >> IT REALLY WAS A HOBBY. 190 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:24,342 >> IT WAS ADDICTIVE. IT WAS ADDICTIVE, IT REALLY WAS. >> REPORTER: YOU WERE LIKE PRIVATE EYES. 191 00:22:24,409 --> 00:22:29,114 >> YEAH. >> YES. >> THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO TRACE THE WHOLE MILLER CLAN BACK TO 192 00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:36,321 ONE WOMAN. >> IT'S DEXTER'S GREAT-GRANDMOTHER; IT'S MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, SARAH. 193 00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:42,160 >> REPORTER: SARAH MILLER? >> YES. >> THEY HAD FOUND A PICTURE OF SARAH MILLER. 194 00:22:42,227 --> 00:22:48,366 >> THIS IS SARAH RIGHT HERE. >> AND THEY'D GOTTEN HOLD OF HER DEATH CERTIFICATE, WHICH SHOWED THAT SHE'D BEEN BORN IN 195 00:22:48,433 --> 00:22:58,043 PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY IN 1868, JUST THREE YEARS AFTER THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. AND THEY FOUND AN EVEN BETTER 196 00:22:58,110 --> 00:23:07,219 RESOURCE, ONE OF THEIR OLDEST LIVING RELATIVES, A BELOVED FORMER SCHOOL TEACHER NAMED MARIAN KEYES. 197 00:23:07,285 --> 00:23:11,957 MS. KEYES, AS EVERYONE HERE CALLS HER, RECENTLY TURNED 90. >> REPORTER: SARAH MILLER IS THE MATRIARCH OF THE FAMILY. 198 00:23:12,023 --> 00:23:19,231 >> YES, SHE WAS. >> Reporter: DID YOU KNOW HER? >> YES, I DID. >> Reporter: WELL, TELL US ABOUT 199 00:23:19,297 --> 00:23:27,906 HER. >> SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE OUT THERE WITH A BROOM IN HER HAND, AND SHE WOULD BE WAITING FOR US. 200 00:23:27,973 --> 00:23:31,409 >> MARIAN KEYES REMEMBERS HER GREAT-GRANDMOTHER SARAH AS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. >> WHAT SHE WANTED YOU TO KNOW, 201 00:23:31,476 --> 00:23:35,847 YOU WERE GOING TO KNOW IT. >> REPORTER: WAS SHE PERSNICKETY, AS THEY SAY? >> YES, YES, YES. 202 00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:41,286 >> REPORTER: WAS SHE DIFFICULT? STERN? >> VERY. VERY. SHE DIDN'T -- SHE DIDN'T PLAY. 203 00:23:41,353 --> 00:23:45,357 SHE DIDN'T PLAY, BUT WE LOVED HER. >> BUT THAT'S WHERE MS. KEYES' KNOWLEDGE OF MILLER FAMILY 204 00:23:45,423 --> 00:23:50,962 HISTORY ENDED. SHE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE GENERATIONS BEFORE EMANCIPATION. 205 00:23:51,029 --> 00:23:57,669 >> REPORTER: WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP, WHAT DID YOU LEARN OR HEAR FROM YOUR PARENTS ABOUT SLAVERY? 206 00:23:57,736 --> 00:24:02,174 >> NOTHING. >> REPORTER: NOTHING? >> NOTHING. THEY DID NOT TALK ABOUT IT. 207 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:08,013 I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THEY WERE AFRAID, WHETHER IT WAS TOO MISERABLE OR PAINFUL, OR THEY WANTED TO FORGET IT, I DON'T 208 00:24:08,079 --> 00:24:14,352 KNOW. BUT THEY DID NOT TALK TO US ABOUT IT AT ALL, AND WE DIDN'T ASK THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. 209 00:24:14,419 --> 00:24:23,728 >> REPORTER: WHY NOT? >> WE WERE AFRAID TO. >> WE HEARD THAT AGAIN AND AGAIN FROM MEMBERS OF THE MILLER 210 00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:26,731 FAMILY. >> SLAVERY WASN'T MENTIONED AT ALL. >> REPORTER: WAS THERE ALMOST A 211 00:24:26,798 --> 00:24:36,074 CODE? WE DON'T TALK ABOUT SLAVERY, SO NOBODY DID? >> IT WAS SOMETHING THAT EVERY 212 00:24:36,141 --> 00:24:41,446 BLACK PERSON KNEW YOU DIDN'T TALK ABOUT. YOUR PARENTS WAS TO TELL YOU NOT TO DISCUSS GROWN PEOPLE 213 00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:52,390 BUSINESS. THAT'S WHAT THEY'LL TELL YOU. >> THE FIRST TIME SLAVERY WAS DISCUSSED WAS, I GUESS, IN THE 214 00:24:52,457 --> 00:24:57,996 '70s WHEN "ROOTS" CAME, THE MOVIE "ROOTS" CAME ABOUT. >> REPORTER: THAT'S THE FIRST TIME? 215 00:24:58,063 --> 00:25:02,300 >> UH-HUH. >> REPORTER: WHEN "ROOTS" WAS ON TELEVISION? DID YOU READ ABOUT IT IN SCHOOL? 216 00:25:02,367 --> 00:25:08,840 >> NOT MUCH. >> HIS FAMILY ALSO REMEMBERS "ROOTS" AS PIVOTAL. >> YES. 217 00:25:08,907 --> 00:25:14,079 >> I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE ALL-- >> THAT'S WHERE WE ALL-- >> THAT WAS AN EYE-OPENER. 218 00:25:14,145 --> 00:25:16,748 >> REPORTER: BUT EVEN AFTER "ROOTS," YOU DIDN'T GO AND SAY, "WHAT ABOUT OUR FAMILY?" >> NO. 219 00:25:16,815 --> 00:25:19,751 >> REPORTER: EVEN THEN. >> NOT AT ALL. >> REPORTER: WHAT HELD YOU BACK? >> I JUST DIDN'T THINK THEY 220 00:25:19,818 --> 00:25:24,256 WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IT. >> REPORTER: BUT DIDN'T YOU WANT TO KNOW? >> I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE KNOWN. 221 00:25:24,322 --> 00:25:29,361 I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE KNOWN. >> FRED'S PURCHASE OF SHARSWOOD WAS ABOUT TO GIVE HIM A CRASH COURSE IN HIS HOMETOWN'S SLAVERY 222 00:25:29,427 --> 00:25:33,965 ROOTS. IT STARTED WITH A CALL FROM TWO ARCHEOLOGISTS WHO WANTED TO COME DO RESEARCH. 223 00:25:34,032 --> 00:25:38,169 >> WE'RE HISTORIC PRESERVATIONISTS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE START FROM THE IDEA THAT THESE PLACES 224 00:25:38,236 --> 00:25:47,412 MATTER. >> DENNIS POGUE ONCE WORKED AT MOUNT VERNON. DOUG SANFORD AT MONTICELLO. 225 00:25:47,479 --> 00:25:52,684 THEY ASKED IF THEY COULD COME EXPLORE SHARSWOOD. BUT THEY WEREN'T INTERESTED IN THE ORNATE HOUSE DESIGNED BY 226 00:25:52,751 --> 00:26:00,325 THAT FAMOUS ARCHITECT. WHAT THEY CARED ABOUT WAS THE DILAPIDATED BUILDING WITH THE TIN ROOF PAST THE BIG OAK TREE 227 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:09,734 BEHIND IT. THEY SUSPECTED IT HAD ONCE BEEN SLAVE QUARTERS. >> THERE WERE ONCE HUNDREDS OF 228 00:26:09,801 --> 00:26:12,938 THOUSANDS OF THESE BUILDINGS. THESE WERE ONE OF THE MOST COMMON TYPES OF ARCHITECTURE IN VIRGINIA. 229 00:26:13,004 --> 00:26:21,246 >> LET ME GIVE YOU THE RUNNING DIMENSIONS. >> BUT NOW THESE BUILDINGS ARE RARE. 230 00:26:21,313 --> 00:26:27,385 WITH FEWER THAN 1,500 BELIEVED TO STILL BE STANDING. AND POGUE AND SANFORD STARTED A PROJECT TO SEARCH FOR THEM. 231 00:26:27,452 --> 00:26:35,393 >> SO, ONE, TWO, THREE FOUR. >> FRED AND KAREN INVITED THEM TO COME INVESTIGATE. THEY EXAMINED, MEASURED, AND 232 00:26:35,460 --> 00:26:41,166 SEARCHED FOR CLUES. >> YOU CAN SEE THE SIDING IS -- >> THEY SHOWED US SOME OF WHAT THEY FOUND. 233 00:26:41,232 --> 00:26:46,504 >> THESE ARE THE KIND OF NAILS THAT WE EXPECT TO SEE ON BUILDINGS BEFORE 1800. HAND-MADE, WROUGHT NAILS. 234 00:26:46,571 --> 00:26:51,609 >> REPORTER: HAND-MADE? >> YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE HAMMER STROKES ON THE HEAD. >> REPORTER: IS THIS THE 235 00:26:51,676 --> 00:26:58,116 ORIGINAL SIDING? >> THESE ARE REMNANTS OF THE ORIGINAL SIDING. ABSOLUTELY. 236 00:26:58,183 --> 00:27:04,189 >> THEY WORKED FROM NOON TO DUSK AND FINALLY GAVE KAREN AND FRED THEIR CONCLUSION. >> IT'S GOT A COMPLEX HISTORY, 237 00:27:04,255 --> 00:27:13,965 BUT WE THINK PART OF THAT HISTORY, A BIG PART OF THAT HISTORY, WAS IT WAS A QUARTER FOR ENSLAVED FOLKS. 238 00:27:14,032 --> 00:27:21,773 >> THEY SAY IT'S ONE OF THE BEST PRESERVED THEY'VE SEEN. THEY BELIEVE IT WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT IN THE LATE 1700s AS A 239 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,443 HOUSE FOR A WHITE FAMILY. >> THAT'S WHERE THE ORIGINAL DOOR WAS. >> AND WAS LATER DIVIDED INTO 240 00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:32,817 TWO SEPARATE, SINGLE-ROOM SLAVE DWELLINGS. >> REPORTER: TWO FAMILIES? >> YEAH, ONE HOUSEHOLD HERE, 241 00:27:32,884 --> 00:27:37,522 ANOTHER ENSLAVED HOUSEHOLD OVER THERE. >> IT JUST SHOWED THAT IT WAS TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS. 242 00:27:37,589 --> 00:27:43,328 THIS FRONT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL WORLD HERE, AND LAVISH; AND YOU GO RIGHT BEHIND THE HOUSE AND THERE WAS A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY. 243 00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:48,099 IT'S KINDA CRAZY FOR ME JUST TO EVEN WALK AROUND OUT THERE. >> REPORTER: DO YOU OWN THAT? DO YOU OWN THE SLAVE HOUSE, TOO? 244 00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:57,108 >> I OWN THE SLAVE HOUSE, I DO. THAT'S MINE. >> REPORTER: WOW. >> YEAH. 245 00:27:57,175 --> 00:28:03,982 >> FRED MILLER'S PURCHASE CONTINUES TO SURPRISE HIS FAMILY AND INTRIGUE HISTORIANS. WHEN WE COME BACK. 246 00:28:14,826 --> 00:28:24,669 >>> WHEN FRED MILLER UNWITTINGLY PURCHASED WHAT HE NOW KNOWS TO BE THE SHARSWOOD PLANTATION HOUSE, WITH SLAVE QUARTERS JUST 247 00:28:24,736 --> 00:28:31,209 BEHIND IT, HE KNEW VIRTUALLY NOTHING ABOUT HIS OWN FAMILY HISTORY. HE'D ALWAYS ASSUMED HIS 248 00:28:31,276 --> 00:28:38,783 ANCESTORS HAD BEEN ENSLAVED BUT IT FELT TO HIM LIKE AN UNKNOWABLE PART OF A DISTANT PAST. 249 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:59,471 LEARNING ABOUT HIS GREAT GRANDMOTHER, SARAH MILLER, WHOM HIS MOTHER HAD KNOWN ABOUT AS A CHILD, PIQUED HIS INTEREST. 250 00:28:59,537 --> 00:29:02,740 SO WHEN HE FOUND OUT HER HOUSE WAS STILL STANDING, JUST A FEW MILES AWAY FROM SHARSWOOD, HE ASKED HIS MOTHER BETTY DIXON TO 251 00:29:02,807 --> 00:29:09,347 GO THERE WITH HIM. >> WE'RE GOING TO WALK DOWN HERE. >> BETTY'S GRANDMOTHER SARAH HAD 252 00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:11,583 BEEN THE FIRST OF THEIR ANCESTORS TO BE BORN INTO FREEDOM SHORTLY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. 253 00:29:11,649 --> 00:29:14,052 >> LAST TIME I SAW THIS CABIN, IT HAD NO LIGHTS. NO ELECTRICITY. >> BETTY REMEMBERS VISITING AND 254 00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:20,525 SPENDING THE NIGHT HERE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER AND COUSINS. >> WHOA. WHAT IS IT, ONE ROOM? 255 00:29:20,592 --> 00:29:24,729 >> SARAH'S HOUSE DIDN'T LOOK MUCH BIGGER THAN THE SLAVE DWELLING. JUST A SINGLE ROOM, WITH A 256 00:29:24,796 --> 00:29:30,068 SMALLER ONE ABOVE IT AND NO INDOOR PLUMBING. >> COME A LONG WAYS, HUH? >> SURE DID. 257 00:29:30,135 --> 00:29:37,408 >> GLAD I DIDN'T HAVE TO LIVE IN HERE. >> WELL, HAD TO MAKE IT WORK. >> YOU WANT A PIECE OF THIS 258 00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:44,149 WALLPAPER TO TAKE WITH YOU? >> YEAH. >> HOPE THE LANDLORD DON'T SAY NOTHING. 259 00:29:44,215 --> 00:29:48,820 >> OH, LORD. THERE YOU GO. >> SARAH MILLER IS BURIED IN THE CEMETERY OF THE CHURCH THE 260 00:29:48,887 --> 00:29:54,125 MILLER FAMILY STILL ATTENDS. >> I'M GLAD NOW I CAN ACTUALLY COME HERE AND SEE. >> YEAH. 261 00:29:54,192 --> 00:30:05,036 >> BUT UNBEKNOWNST TO THIS MILLER FAMILY, JUST FIVE MILES UP THE ROAD IN A DIFFERENT PCHURCH CEMETERY WAS A TOMBSTON 262 00:30:05,103 --> 00:30:11,643 THAT ALSO READ MILLER, A FAR OLDER ONE, WITH NAMES FRED AND HIS FAMILY HAD NEVER HEARD OF, BUT WERE ABOUT TO. 263 00:30:11,709 --> 00:30:17,348 IN KAREN'S SEARCH FOR INFORMATION ABOUT SHARSWOOD, SHE FOUND A DOCUMENT THAT MENTIONED THEM. 264 00:30:17,415 --> 00:30:27,025 >> IT GAVE THE NAMES OF THE ORIGINAL OWNERS, WHO WAS NATHANIEL CRENSHAW MILLER AND ALSO CHARLES EDWIN MILLER. 265 00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:31,796 >> MILLER? >> YES, MILLER. >> REPORTER: ANY LIGHTBULBS? ANY WIRES CONNECT? 266 00:30:31,863 --> 00:30:37,068 >> NO, NOT AT THAT POINT. >> DIDN'T AT THAT POINT. >> NOT AT THAT POINT, IT DID NOT. 267 00:30:37,135 --> 00:30:43,775 >> OTHERS HAD SUSPECTED A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO SETS OF MILLERS. >> BECAUSE I WAS TELLING DEXTER 268 00:30:43,841 --> 00:30:49,847 BACK IN '88, I -- >> BILL THOMPSON SAYS HE HAD MENTIONED THE THOUGHT TO DEXTER 30 YEARS AGO. 269 00:30:49,914 --> 00:30:55,253 >> WHAT WE HAD BEEN TAUGHT IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS THAT WHEN THEY FREED THE SLAVES, THEY JUST TOOK THE LAST NAME OF THE PERSON THAT 270 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:00,858 WAS THERE, WHICH WAS MILLER. I JUST HAD TOLD DEXTER, "DEXTER, IT'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT YOUR ANCESTORS CAME OFF OF THIS 271 00:31:00,925 --> 00:31:05,997 FARM." >> HE DID, HE SAID THAT. >> REPORTER: SO YOU KNEW THAT THIS WAS A PLANTATION? 272 00:31:06,064 --> 00:31:10,802 >> I DID. >> REPORTER: WELL, FRED, YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T KNOW. >> I HAD NO IDEA. 273 00:31:10,868 --> 00:31:17,342 >> REPORTER: DEXTER, YOU DIDN'T TELL FRED? >> I DID NOT TELL FRED. I DID NOT TELL ANYONE. 274 00:31:17,408 --> 00:31:21,613 >> DEXTER SAYS HE'D KEPT IT TO HIMSELF, BECAUSE HE HADN'T FOUND ANY WAY TO PROVE IT. AND THAT'S WHERE THIS BECOMES A 275 00:31:21,679 --> 00:31:30,822 DETECTIVE STORY. WITH THE MILLER COUSINS NOW ON A MISSION TO FIGURE OUT WHETHER IT COULD BE POSSIBLE THAT THEIR OWN 276 00:31:30,888 --> 00:31:39,597 ANCESTORS MIGHT HAVE BEEN ENSLAVED ON THE VERY PROPERTY FRED NOW OWNED. THE FIRST STEP WAS FIGURING OUT 277 00:31:39,664 --> 00:31:48,106 WHO THEIR LAST ENSLAVED ANCESTORS WERE. AND SARAH MILLER'S DEATH CERTIFICATE HELD THE ANSWER, THE 278 00:31:48,172 --> 00:31:54,445 NAMES OF HER PARENTS, DAVID AND VIOLET MILLER, WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN ADULTS AT THE TIME OF EMANCIPATION. 279 00:31:54,512 --> 00:32:01,619 >> REPORTER: DID YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM? >> NOT AT ALL. NOT AT ALL. 280 00:32:01,686 --> 00:32:05,890 >> I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM. WE DIDN'T -- >> EVEN MARIAN KEYES, WHO KNEW 281 00:32:05,957 --> 00:32:09,494 SARAH MILLER, HAD NEVER HEARD THEIR NAMES. >> NOTHING. >> REPORTER: WOW. 282 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:17,602 >> SURE DIDN'T. >> I JUST -- I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW. >> ENTER KARICE LUCK-BRIMMER, A 283 00:32:17,669 --> 00:32:25,143 LOCAL HISTORIAN AND GENEALOGIST. KAREN REACHED OUT TO HER TO SEE IF SHE COULD HELP. >> REPORTER: WHAT ARE THE 284 00:32:25,209 --> 00:32:30,848 SPECIAL CHALLENGES LOOKING FOR THE ANCESTORS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS? >> AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE NOT 285 00:32:30,915 --> 00:32:36,688 LISTED BY NAME UNTIL THE 1870 CENSUS. SO BEFORE THAT, THEY WERE JUST A NUMBER. 286 00:32:36,754 --> 00:32:46,397 >> REPORTER: YOU MEAN, IF THEY WERE ENSLAVED, THEY-- >> YES. >> -- WEREN'T LISTED? 287 00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:49,600 >> AT ALL. SO REALLY, YOU'RE JUST LOOKING FOR ANY TYPE OF TIPS AND CLUES THAT YOU CAN. 288 00:32:49,667 --> 00:32:56,474 >> SHE STARTED BY LOOKING AT 1860 RECORDS FOR SHARSWOOD'S THEN OWNER, N.C. FOR NATHANIEL CRENSHAW MILLER. 289 00:32:56,541 --> 00:33:03,414 >> THERE HE IS. >> REPORTER: N.C. MILLER RIGHT THERE, OKAY. >> YEAH. HE HAD 58 SLAVES HERE. 290 00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:13,191 >> BUT WITH ONLY AGE AND GENDER LISTED -- >> Reporter: YOU HAVE ENSLAVED PEOPLE 69, 44, 34, AND NOT A 291 00:33:13,257 --> 00:33:21,032 SINGLE NAME. >> NO NAMES. >> THERE WAS NO WAY OF KNOWING WHETHER VIOLET AND DAVID WERE 292 00:33:21,099 --> 00:33:31,075 AMONG THEM, SO KARICE LOOKED UP DAVID AND VIOLET MILLER IN THE 1870 CENSUS, THE FIRST ONE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, WHERE THEY 293 00:33:31,142 --> 00:33:39,450 FINALLY APPEARED BY NAME. IT SHOWED THEY WERE FARMHANDS, THAT THEY COULDN'T READ OR WRITE, AND IT LISTED THEIR 294 00:33:39,517 --> 00:33:45,289 CHILDREN, INCLUDING, AS KARICE SHOWED US, A VERY YOUNG SARAH MILLER. >> REPORTER: THERE'S SARAH. 295 00:33:45,356 --> 00:33:48,993 SHE'S 1 YEAR OLD. >> 1 YEARS OLD. >> REPORTER: AND THIS LOOKS LIKE EMILY. 296 00:33:49,060 --> 00:33:53,231 >> YES. >> REPORTER: SHE'S 3. AND HERE'S SAMUEL. >> YEAH. 297 00:33:53,297 --> 00:34:02,874 >> REPORTER: HE'S 5. >> TO KARICE, THAT MEANT SAMUEL, SARAH'S OLDER BROTHER, WAS BORN BEFORE EMANCIPATION. 298 00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:11,349 SO KARICE SEARCHED FOR HIM IN ANOTHER HISTORICAL RECORD CALLED THE VIRGINIA SLAVE BIRTH INDEX. WHERE SLAVE OWNERS HAD TO LIST 299 00:34:11,416 --> 00:34:18,956 BIRTHS ON THEIR PROPERTY. >> THIS DOCUMENT. >> AND THERE, UNDER N.C. MILLER'S NAME -- 300 00:34:19,023 --> 00:34:25,296 >> N.C. >> REPORTER: RIGHT. >> AND THERE'S SAMUEL. >> WAS SAMUEL. 301 00:34:25,363 --> 00:34:28,800 >> AND LOOK AT THAT. >> REPORTER: OH, MY WORD. >> IT LISTS VIOLET AS HIS MOTHER. 302 00:34:28,866 --> 00:34:39,811 >> IT WAS THE GENEALOGY EQUIVALENT OF A SMOKING GUN. >> REPORTER: SO THIS IS PROOF THAT VIOLET, SARAH'S MOTHER, WAS 303 00:34:39,877 --> 00:34:44,449 ENSLAVED BY N.C. MILLER? >> YES. >> Reporter: AND THIS IS ABSOLUTE PROOF? 304 00:34:44,515 --> 00:34:50,788 >> THIS IS ABSOLUTE, DEFINITE PROOF. >> REPORTER: AND YOU WERE ABLE TO TELL KAREN -- 305 00:34:50,855 --> 00:34:57,094 >> THAT HER ANCESTORS, DAVID AND VIOLET, WERE ENSLAVED AT SHARSWOOD. >> THAT WAS TOUGH. 306 00:34:57,161 --> 00:35:03,267 >> REPORTER: SO DID YOU CALL FRED? >> I DID. I DON'T THINK HE BELIEVED ME IN 307 00:35:03,334 --> 00:35:10,107 THE BEGINNING. >> I DIDN'T BELIEVE HER. >> REPORTER: SO THE CONNECTION SUDDENLY IS MADE WITH YOUR 308 00:35:10,174 --> 00:35:16,447 FAMILY, SLAVERY, AND THIS HOUSE. >> AND THIS HOUSE. >> THIS HOUSE. >> REPORTER: AND YOU OWN IT. 309 00:35:16,514 --> 00:35:20,184 >> ONCE I REALIZED THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY MY BLOOD THAT WAS HERE, IT TOOK ON A WHOLE NEW MEANING FOR ME. 310 00:35:20,251 --> 00:35:29,293 IT REALLY SADDENS ME SOMETIMES WHEN I -- YOU KNOW, AND I'M UP -- A LOT OF TIMES I'M UP WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT JUST THINKING 311 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,764 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE. >> AS NEWS SPREAD THROUGH THE FAMILY, THERE WAS SADNESS, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL THERE WAS. 312 00:35:33,831 --> 00:35:40,438 >> I ALMOST FELT LIKE I WAS LOSING MY BREATH FOR A MOMENT. IT WS ALMOST LIKE A FEELING OF BEING FOUND. 313 00:35:40,505 --> 00:35:44,242 >> UH-HUH. >> YES. >> THIS IS WHERE I STARTED. AND AS BLACK PEOPLE, WE DON'T 314 00:35:44,308 --> 00:35:51,983 ALWAYS KNOW WHERE WE STARTED. >> REPORTER: SO HERE WE ARE, SITTING IN THIS HOUSE. >> I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 315 00:35:52,049 --> 00:36:02,593 I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. THAT I'M IN THE PLANTATION HOUSE OF THE PLANTATION THAT MY FAMILY WAS ENSLAVED. 316 00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:08,533 >> REPORTER: YOU'RE LAUGHING AS IF THIS CANNOT BE TRUE. >> CANNOT BE, THAT'S RIGHT. BUT IT IS. 317 00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:16,507 >> I FELT -- I FEEL COMPLETE. >> REPORTER: WOW. >> I'M NOT HALF OF A HUMAN BEING ANYMORE. 318 00:36:16,574 --> 00:36:26,017 THEY MAKE ME WHOLE, EVEN IF I DON'T KNOW THEM. I FELT A CONNECTION TO THEM AT SHARSWOOD. 319 00:36:26,083 --> 00:36:36,460 >> I TOUCHED THE TREE, I HUGGED THE TREE, AND I SAID, OH, MY GOD, YOU WAS HERE WHEN MY ANCESTOR WAS HERE. 320 00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:45,970 I WONDER WHICH ANCESTOR OF MINE HAS TOUCHED THE TREE. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR DO, I JUST HUGGED THE TREE. 321 00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:53,978 AND FELT LIKE, I'M HOME. >> HE SHARED THE NEWS WITH BILL THOMPSON, WHO HAD HAD THAT HUNCH ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. 322 00:36:54,045 --> 00:37:05,189 >> I LOOK AT IT THAT I'VE BEEN A SERVANT TO THIS FARM AND THIS HOUSE MY WHOLE LIFE. AND FOR THE MILLER FAMILY TO 323 00:37:05,256 --> 00:37:09,961 COME BACK HOME TO MY HOME, OUR HOME. >> OUR HOME. ABSOLUTELY. >> IT'S GREAT. 324 00:37:10,027 --> 00:37:17,668 IT'S A CELEBRATION OF, OF COMING HOME. >> THIS IS GOD. >> UH-HUH. 325 00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:23,207 >> THIS IS WHERE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE. IT'S LIKE A FULL CIRCLE. LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO HAPPEN. 326 00:37:23,274 --> 00:37:26,410 >> IT'S GOD'S WORK. >> TO ME IT'S LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO HAPPEN. >> THE MILLERS ALSO SEE THE HAND 327 00:37:26,477 --> 00:37:29,880 OF THEIR ANCESTORS IN ALL OF THIS. >> I THINK THEY HAD TO BE BECAUSE I DID EVERYTHING, I DID 328 00:37:29,947 --> 00:37:36,787 EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO MAKE THIS FAIL. >> TO NOT MAKE IT HAPPEN, YEAH. >> I TRIED TO MESS IT UP AT 329 00:37:36,854 --> 00:37:46,864 EVERY ANGLE. >> BUT THOSE ANCESTORS HAD ONE MORE SURPRISE IN STORE. WITH ALL THE REVELATIONS, THERE 330 00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:54,472 WAS ONE QUESTION THAT CONTINUED TO GNAW AT DEXTER. WHERE WERE HIS ENSLAVED ANCESTORS BURIED? 331 00:37:54,538 --> 00:38:02,647 SO, LAST WINTER, HE ASKED BILL. >> I SAID, BILL, THERE'S ONE QUESTION THAT'S BEEN BOTHERING ME. 332 00:38:02,713 --> 00:38:09,720 WHERE IS THE SLAVE CEMETERY? HE SAID, DEXTER, IT'S RIGHT OVER THERE. I SAID, RIGHT OVER WHERE? 333 00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:17,294 HE SAID, YOU SEE THOSE TREES OVER THERE? >> Reporter: SO DID YOU JUST GO RIGHT UP THERE THEN? 334 00:38:17,361 --> 00:38:21,232 >> WE WENT RIGHT UP THERE. >> THE TREES BILL THOMPSON POINTED TO, JUST BEYOND FRED'S PROPERTY, SURE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE 335 00:38:21,298 --> 00:38:26,671 A CEMETERY. THAT IS, UNTIL YOU START TO LOOK CLOSELY. >> REPORTER: IS THAT ONE OF 336 00:38:26,737 --> 00:38:33,878 THEM? >> THAT'S ONE OF THEM RIGHT THERE. >> OH, MY GOSH. 337 00:38:33,944 --> 00:38:39,684 >> AS YOU SEE, THIS IS THE INDENTION RIGHT HERE. THAT'S THE HEADSTONE THERE. MAYBE THIS IS A FOOTSTONE ON THE 338 00:38:39,750 --> 00:38:46,824 OTHER END. >> YES. >> REPORTER: OH, MY. >> POKING UP THROUGH THE LEAVES 339 00:38:46,891 --> 00:38:52,663 ALL AROUND US WERE POINTED ROCKS, SOME SMALL, SOME MEDIUM SIZED. NO NAMES. 340 00:38:52,730 --> 00:38:59,570 NO ENGRAVING. JUST PLAIN, ANONYMOUS MARKERS OF MANY, MANY LIVES. >> Reporter: WOW. 341 00:38:59,637 --> 00:39:03,541 THIS IS ASTONISHING. >> IT IS. >> REPORTER: IT'S KIND OF OVERWHELMING, ISN'T IT? 342 00:39:03,607 --> 00:39:07,611 >> IT IS. >> IT IS. IT REALLY IS. I MEAN, WE ALL LIVE IN THE SAME 343 00:39:07,678 --> 00:39:13,417 AREA, WE COME PAST THIS PLACE, AND WE WOULD NOT KNOW THAT OUR ANCESTORS WERE RIGHT THERE BESIDE US THE ENTIRE TIME. 344 00:39:13,484 --> 00:39:19,924 >> REPORTER: FRED, IF YOU HADN'T BOUGHT THAT HOUSE. >> RIGHT. YOU'RE RIGHT. 345 00:39:19,990 --> 00:39:23,928 >> IF I HADN'T BOUGHT THAT HOUSE, WE'D NEVER KNOW. >> NEVER. >> REPORTER: SO HOW HAS ALL OF 346 00:39:23,994 --> 00:39:31,836 THIS AFFECTED YOU? >> IT'S CHANGED ME. IT'S DEFINITELY CHANGED ME. >> REPORTER: YOU EVER ANGRY? 347 00:39:31,902 --> 00:39:36,507 >> I GET A LITTLE UPSET SOMETIMES WHEN I FIND OUT THINGS THAT I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ALREADY. 348 00:39:36,574 --> 00:39:42,880 >> Reporter: ANGRY AT YOURSELF? >> ANGRY AT MYSELF AND THE SYSTEM BECAUSE I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MORE. 349 00:39:42,947 --> 00:39:45,349 >> REPORTER: WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM? >> SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MORE. >> REPORTER: FAMILY? 350 00:39:45,416 --> 00:39:48,052 >> SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MORE, ABSOLUTELY. >> REPORTER: YOU WANT THE STORY OF SLAVERY TOLD. 351 00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:53,791 >> I WANT THE STORY OF SLAVERY TOLD. IT'S IMPORTANT. >> SO THIS WAS CONVERTED FROM A 352 00:39:53,858 --> 00:39:59,096 DOOR TO A WINDOW? >> YEAH, YEAH. >> FRED WANTS TO DO WHATEVER'S NECESSARY TO PRESERVE THE SLAVE 353 00:39:59,163 --> 00:40:03,334 HOUSE. >> YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN EXPOSED FOR, YOU KNOW, 200 YEARS. 354 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:10,441 >> YEAH, RIGHT. >> HE'S IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP A NONPROFIT TO MAKE THAT POSSIBLE. 355 00:40:10,508 --> 00:40:16,213 >> THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME, TOO, BECAUSE I KNOW A WHOLE LOT OF EMPHASIS IS ON THAT BIG WHITE HOUSE. 356 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:23,087 >> WELL, EXACTLY. >> BUT THIS RIGHT HERE IS REALLY NEAR AND DEAR. >> WELL, THIS IS THE STORY. 357 00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:25,256 >> RIGHT. THIS IS THE STORY. >> THIS IS YOUR FAMILY'S STORY. >> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 358 00:40:25,322 --> 00:40:29,093 >> ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT. THERE'S EIGHT RIGHT THERE. >> AND HE'S BEEN THINKING ABOUT 359 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,529 THE CEMETERY TOO. >> I CAN IMAGINE THIS BEING SOMEONE YOUNG. >> WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT 360 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:39,503 THIS. >> YEAH, HAVE TO. AND I WILL. I'M GOING TO FIX IT. 361 00:40:39,570 --> 00:40:46,644 >> REPORTER: DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT ALLOW HISTORIANS TO COME AND -- >> ABSOLUTELY. 362 00:40:46,710 --> 00:40:50,614 ABSOLUTELY. THIS PLACE WILL BE OPEN TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO LEARN. >> Reporter: ANYONE? 363 00:40:50,681 --> 00:40:58,889 >> ANYONE CAN COME HERE. >> BUT FOR NOW, SHARSWOOD IS SERVING THE PURPOSE FRED BOUGHT IT FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE. 364 00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:13,771 GATHERING THE MILLER FAMILY TOGETHER IN CELEBRATION. ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ♪ ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YA ♪ 365 00:41:13,838 --> 00:41:21,579 ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YA ♪ >> REPORTER: WHAT DO YOU THINK VIOLET AND DAVID WOULD THINK IF 366 00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:28,252 THEY COULD SEE THAT YOU OWN THIS PLACE? >> YEAH, I'M HOPING, I'M HOPING THEY WOULD BE PROUD OF US, AND I 367 00:41:28,319 --> 00:41:34,458 THINK THEY WOULD BE. THEY ENDURED A LOT. I MEAN, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH. 368 00:41:34,525 --> 00:41:43,467 ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ♪ >> LOOKING DOWN ON US NOW, THEY MUST BE SMILING AT US. >> SINCE OUR STORY FIRST AIRED, 369 00:41:43,534 --> 00:41:52,376 FRED MILLER TOOK A NEW JOB IN VIRGINIA TO BE CLOSER TO HIS FAMILY. HE HAS SET UP A NONPROFIT 370 00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:59,450 SHARSWOOD FOUNDATION TO MAINTAIN THE SLAVE QUARTERS AND CEMETERY AND HAS BEGUN OFFERING TOURS OF THE HOUSE. 371 00:42:05,089 --> 00:42:10,995 >>> WATCH THE MILLERS VISIT THE SHARSWOOD SLAVE CEMETERY FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> SEVERAL OF THEM RIGHT HERE. 372 00:42:11,061 --> 00:42:23,874 >>> NOW THE LAST MINUTE OF "60 MINUTES "REQUEST THE. >>> TONIGHT'S STORIES INVITED US ON A JOURNEY TO REVISIT THE 373 00:42:23,941 --> 00:42:32,182 PAST. AS IS TRUE OF SO MANY HISTORY LESSONS, OUR LOOKS AT BOTH SHARSWOOD AND CANADA'S 374 00:42:32,249 --> 00:42:39,089 RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS RESURRECTED PAINFUL AND SHAMEFUL ERAS. BUT OTHER PARTS OF THOSE STORIES POINTED WAYS TO PROGRESS AND 375 00:42:39,156 --> 00:42:53,804 HEALING. THE LATE DAVID McCULLOUGH, WHO CHRONICLED SO MUCH OF OUR HISTORY, WROTE, HISTORY IS WHO 376 00:42:53,871 --> 00:42:58,342 WE ARE AND WHY WE ARE THE WAY WE ARE. WE HOPE TONIGHT'S BROADCAST HAS