Finding Shared Roots Between South Carolina and Sierra Leone

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Finding Shared Roots Between South Carolina and Sierra Leone

To know where you’re going in life, you must understand where you came from. As an African American woman, that statement would have once caused me discomfort because of the Transatlantic slave trade, what it did to my ancestors who came here, and how slavery robbed them of their history and culture in many ways. Despite that, my ancestors still clung to traditions and passed them down through the generations so that they would never truly die. …