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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Ancestry
Using a rare and unbroken document trail, scholars have succeeded in tracing a 10-year old girl from her kidnap in Sierra Leone 249 years ago to her life on the plantation in the United States where she was taken, forced into slavery, and re-named Priscilla.
That’s amazing.
Although on am unrelated note, I was highly entertained by this sentence: “Mr Laurens, who later became famous as a leader in the American war of independence”
