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Posted on January 18, 2016 by Felicia Furman — 7 Comments

A friend of mine recently forwarded me this link to a story about two women who discover they are linked descendants. This story is not unusual to those of us who post on BitterSweet: Linked Through Slavery. If anything, it reminds us…

Tagged with: Andrea Scott, Ann Walling, Sunday Dinner: Coming of Age in the Segregated South
Posted in Contemporary (1970- present), General, Intimacy & Family Life, Jim Crow Segregation (1890- 1955), Legacies, Linked Descendants, Racism, Slaveholding (1780 -1865)

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