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A Tattered Dress, Three Handfuls of Pecans, and a Braid of Hair

How an embroidered cotton sack filled with three items would become the shortest slave narrative in existence.

Picture a woman named Rose, Black and enslaved on a South Carolina plantation, pre-Civil War times. Any day now, she will be separated from her nine-year-old daughter, Ashley, soon to be put on the auction block. She prepares something for their parting, a sack filled with very specific it

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