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99 year old daughter of a slave, Ruth Bonner and family ringing the freedom bell.

What blows my mind is that in school they make it feel like slavery was forever ago and it’s so far gone. But here is the child of a slave alive and well. Like her mother was a slave and this woman is the first free generation of her family and that’s terrifying that it was this recent

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