February 2012
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“You are going around to get a story of slavery conditions and the persecutions...”
– Thomas Hall, ex-slave of Orange County, North Carolina; from Been in the Storm So Long by Leon Litwack. More than seventy years after emancipation, Thomas Hall, who had been born a slave in Orange County, North Carolina, could still shake with anger when he thought about the way his people had...
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