Approximately how many former slaves are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia?

Over 3,800 former slaves are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

After seizing General Robert E. Lee’s estate, the federal government set aside acreage to be a model community for emancipated, freed and fugitive slaves. Freedman’s Village included farmland, homes, a hospital, a school and a mess hall before shuttering in 1900. African-Americans who lived at the village were buried on the property, and their graves were incorporated into Section 27 of Arlington National Cemetery. Their headstones are inscribed with “citizen” or “civilian.”