What a stunning document to uncover. An amazing gift that also hurts.

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>A few years ago, I found a transcribed legal document
>containing the testimony of my g-g-g-g grandmother. In her
>testimony, she named her father, her owners, her husband's
>owner, the plantations she lived on and where to find them,
>the preacher who married her, and her children; she also
>described where she currently lived as a sharecropper, how she
>came to live where she lived, what kind of work she did, and
>what her general life was like.
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>That document broke me all the way down. My heart was...I
>don't even have the words. I also grieved about all kinds of
>things that document brought up. I had a lot of rage, too.