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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
	Louisiana	family members research; oral history	1900s	Louisiana	rich heritage
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a cousin in GA told me that she had always been told WE were FPOC	email x-change	no family members seemed to be the least bit interested in finding ancestor	2005	Hartford, CT and from grandfather who was born in NC	the story goes in our family that we were free people of color
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family members	Jamaica		1861	Jamaica	family history
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family members	Saline County, Missouri	my great cousin	1800s	Marshall, Slater and Sedalia, Missouri	overcoming adversity
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Father and cousin	Breaks, Virginia	Family Members	1800s	Kentucky	Black flight
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from my father	cherokee al, and other states he had children over several states	from my father yes ive heard this from other family members		alabama	my grandfather history it was said he had over 25 children
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Grandmother and Great-great uncle	Buckingham County to Hartford County	oral history with older family members	1890s	Hartford, CT	The other great migration
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I heard it from my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother	Burnt Corn & Evergreen, Alabama	Conversation's with older family members	1800s	Evergreen, Alabama	Receiving bits and pieces of stories of the south
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information from the great grand children of George, flora, research paper	cherryvale plantation one of the many frierson plantations sumter sc	family members, research on the plantaions, slave list, military documents	1800s	they lived in sumter sc, some were originally from Charleston sc	Geddis family slaves and exslave living on the frierson plantation
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Many family members	Norfolk / Portsmouth, Virginia	Oral History, minute books, court records, deeds and wills	1800s	Norfolk, Virginia	Free People of Color, Overcoming Adversity
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mother and father	Georgia	many family members	1890s	Arkansas	family unity
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Mother, aunts and uncles.	Bostwick, Georgia	Researcher and family members	1800s	New Jersey and Pennsylvania	Slavery to Freedom
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My Grandmother	Tarrytown, New York	History passed down from family members	1863	New York	Civil War Veteran from New York
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My Great-Grandmother	Hancock County, Georgia	Oral history	1854	Hancock County, Georgia	Family Members
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