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Re: Slave Narratives
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:34:18 -0700
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Since you know for certain that the story could not be true, then consider that maybe  she just had this marvelous story to tell and couldn't resist doing so when the opportunity arose.   My "Virginia Grandmother" would have done the same thing....

Joanne






Paul Heinegg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I just wonder why she made up such a story to tell the interviewer. Did she 
think that was what he wanted to hear or did she not know that both sides of 
her family had been free for hundreds of years.
Paul 


       
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