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Distant cousin Portsmouth, VA 1857 Baltimore, Maryland Oral history interview

My great great grandmother was sold away from her husband and children during the antebellum period. After the war, one of her older sons, while serving in the Navy, searched for his mother for many years. He finally found her living in Atlanta, GA and brought her back to her hometown in Virginia decades later.

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