How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | History : vimarsana.com

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors

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