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Philadelphia allows Black burial grounds to be grave robbed for Jefferson Medical College.

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In particular, there is a longstanding arrangement between the Black superintendent of the Lebanon Cemetery (a burial ground for African-Americans) and a local band of grave robbers. For years, these parties collude to steal as many corpses as they can to sell for anatomical dissection.