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Lost history: What happened to Claiborne Parish child set free by Emancipation Proclamation
“He (Sack Pennington Gee, the owner of the plantation) would leave in a buggy and be gone all day and still not get all over it,” Adams said of the size of the plantation where he spent much of his childhood. “I was the only child my Mammy had… I think she was going to have me when he got her; anyways I come along pretty soon, and my Mammy never was very well afterwards… and when I was four or five years old she died.”
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