Tracing a Child's Heritage
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Genealogist Char McCargo Bah presents the lecture Tracing a Child's Heritage from the 20th century to the 18th century in Virginia. This lecture explores the difficulties of researching enslaved persons, free people of color, and family ownership. This lecture will cover a child buried at Alexandria’s Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, her enslaved relatives, and her mother and aunt from Middletown, Virginia. After sixteen years of research by Bah, their stories can now be told.
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This lecture is part of the special traveling exhibition from Belle Grove Plantation entitled Monday Robinson: A Life of Thorns and Roses, that is open at Freedom House Museum October 22 through December 31.
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