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mother.) Georgia ’s paternal ‘‘ It gave me chills, ’’ LeSane Georgia for vacations when she was me what they endured; they never

grandfather, Silas Wilcox, was said. ‘‘Chills to know that slavery younger and they walked through wavered, they endured, so we

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born enslaved in 1822 in Georgia. was not that long ago, o feel cotton fields. She remembers the wouldn ’t experience any of that. As

In 1867 Wilcox took an oath of the connection. My grandmother vastness of the land and thinking a sixth -generation descendant
allegiance o the United States in knew her grandmother, and of her ancestors working in the hot of slavery, I am essentially a part

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order register to vote in Pulaski her grandmother was the daughter sun on the same land. Learning of the first generation of
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County, Ga. According to the 1880 of slaves. ’’ more about Georgia Wilcox and her descendants to carry the torch
Agricultural Census Schedule, Silas LeSane is one of seven children. other ancestors, she said, ‘‘brought that was lit by my ancestors into

was a sharecropper. She said her family used to return to those images back to me. It showed true freedom. ’’

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