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African American Lives 2 -- Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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my grandma Warren Country, North Carolina 1933 Warren Country, North Carolina newspaper, family story

"Born in slavery rising to riches negro dies in poverty at age of 123." Printed in the Warren Record Friday December 8, 1933 in North Carolina. This is my great great grandfather Adam Chuckaluck Williams and we still have the newpaper article.

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