[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7496 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7496

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque at the peak 
  of Ram Head in the Virgin Islands National Park on St. John, United 
States Virgin Islands, to commemorate the slave rebellion that began on 
                           St. John in 1733.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 11, 2022

    Ms. Plaskett (for herself and Mr. Reschenthaler) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque at the peak 
  of Ram Head in the Virgin Islands National Park on St. John, United 
States Virgin Islands, to commemorate the slave rebellion that began on 
                           St. John in 1733.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INSTALLATION OF PLAQUE COMMEMORATING SLAVE REBELLION ON ST. 
              JOHN.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall install, in 
an appropriate location in the area of the Ram Head trail at the peak 
of Ram Head in the Virgin Islands National Park on St. John, United 
States Virgin Islands, a suitable plaque to commemorate the slave 
rebellion that began on St. John on November 23, 1733.
    (b) Contents of Plaque.--The plaque installed under subsection (a) 
shall include information regarding--
            (1) important facts about the slave rebellion that began on 
        St. John in 1733;
            (2) the collective suicide that occurred during the slave 
        rebellion in the vicinity of Ram Head on St. John in 1734; and
            (3) the significance of the slave rebellion to the history 
        of St. John, the United States Virgin Islands, and the United 
        States.
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