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“I want the story of slavery told. It’s important.” Fred Miller is dedicated to preserving the history of Sharswood, telling Lesley Stahl, “This place will be open to anyone who wants to learn.” https://cbsn.ws/3LgiZRD pic.twitter.com/FpGxMdDrV4

“We all live in the same area… and we would not know that our ancestors were right there beside us the entire time.” After discovering their ancestors were enslaved at Sharswood, the Miller family found the unmarked cemetery where they were likely buried. https://cbsn.ws/3LhwMHm pic.twitter.com/9jHShEfl0L

“It’s God’s work,” Fred Miller tells Lesley Stahl about learning that his ancestors had been enslaved on the plantation he’d bought in Virginia. His aunt Brenda says, “It's like a full circle, like it was meant to happen.” https://cbsn.ws/3lavfbN pic.twitter.com/fvoiN8Z8wv

“They make me whole, even if I don’t know them. I felt a connection to them at Sharswood,” says Sonya Womack-Miranda about her family now owning property where her ancestors had been enslaved. https://cbsn.ws/3wtQkTH pic.twitter.com/F9P70o77zi

“This is absolute definitive proof… That her ancestors…were enslaved at Sharswood.” Genealogist Karice Luck-Brimmer found the proof Karen Dixon-Rexroth was looking for to show that her ancestors had been enslaved on the property her brother now owns. https://cbsn.ws/39VoY13 pic.twitter.com/0peegZWwHC

During the Miller family’s research into Sharswood, they found documents that mentioned that the original owners of the house also had the last name Miller. Fred Miller and his family didn’t make the possible connection right away. https://cbsn.ws/3MbkrG9 pic.twitter.com/Svr9cKlB6I

At Sharswood, historic preservationists were interested in a dilapidated building behind the main house they suspected had once been slave quarters. Fred Miller, who owns both houses, says, “It’s kind of crazy for me just to even walk around out there.” https://cbsn.ws/3we0I2T pic.twitter.com/uCjgCbAYlg

“[Slavery] was something that every Black person knew you didn’t talk about. Your parents [would] tell you not to discuss grown people business,” Virginia resident Dexter Miller tells 60 Minutes. https://cbsn.ws/37PCpPC pic.twitter.com/4GNcZXfVTy

Miller family cousins researching their ancestry have traced their family’s history back to one woman: Sarah Miller. Her great granddaughter, Marian Keyes, tells 60 Minutes no one in the Miller family spoke about slavery. https://cbsn.ws/3Mj7jPm pic.twitter.com/rTwNMMchAk

After her brother purchased the Virginia property, Karen Dixon-Rexroth became obsessed with the house. She learned that in the 1800s, the house, named Sharswood, had been the seat of a major 1,300-acre plantation. https://cbsn.ws/3l8CHnM pic.twitter.com/0d5Bpsuyt6

When Karen Dixon-Rexroth saw the neighborhood “scary house” was for sale, she immediately called her brother Fred Miller, urging him to make an offer. After putting in a bid he was sure would be denied, he got the house—unaware of the property’s history https://cbsn.ws/3MjPM9N pic.twitter.com/ZG7Onv0XuV

“You can't just let that fear overtake you,” says Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins about investigating Russia. “If you're in a position to do something, if you have information, if you have the motivation and you have the strength to do it, you should do it.” https://cbsn.ws/39nRZCd pic.twitter.com/rwIlnO6W1E

“We know that our database…will be used in…something like a Nuremberg trial,” Bellingcat executive director Christo Grozev tells Scott Pelley. He says his team has been approached by the ICC for material related to Russia’s Ukraine invasion. https://cbsn.ws/3wgUbor pic.twitter.com/xJfYFiQ6ny

“We're headed into an entirely new era of human rights investigations and war crimes investigations,” says Berkeley professor Alexa Koenig, who heads a human rights center that uses Bellingcat’s investigation methods to expose atrocities. https://cbsn.ws/3yBhcnx pic.twitter.com/qDoS1D9oZ0

Every time the Kremlin made it harder for Bellingcat to collect information, the group found new ways to get the information they needed to keep working to expose Russian misdeeds. https://cbsn.ws/37L9snO pic.twitter.com/dwT45VZqtN