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Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.com |
"Many were poor children taken from the streets of English cities, often without their consent."
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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The contempt this country has for children, especially poor children, is foundational too
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Sara Manns
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TIL that Fredrick Douglass saw my ancestors' journey 🙏 the history of a social category 'child' gives context to the stories of these youths, bound to a master who paid their passage once they arrived alive & obliged to settle the debt with their labor every man had a master & every woman had 2
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its moira
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the earliest ancestor my grandmother has traced coming to america was a 14 year old indentured servant who came from ireland in the late 17th century. his surname is my middle name and my father’s middle name.
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