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  • Without My Indentured Ancestor’s ‘Crime’ I Would Not Exist

    My Colonial ancestor was a woman named Sarah Summers, who I believe was from England and sentenced to serve seven years in the America[n] plantations for an unknown offense. I believe her to have been a “seven-year passenger,” who arrived in Virginia in 1756, according to a mention in Peter Wilson Coldham’s book series, Bonded…

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    Henry Louis Gates Jr., Katrina Fahy






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    March 6, 2015
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., Katrina Fahy






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