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Finding Priscilla's Children [7min]

Thomalind Polite spent her whole life in South Carolina. But she went to Sierra Leone this year. Her aim was to see where a young girl almost 250 years ago took her last steps on African soil before boarding a slave ship for America. That girl was Polite's great great great great grandmother. Host Marco Werman speaks with Polite and the man who traced her ancestry, African-American history professor Joseph Opala.
Read entire article at BBC World Service-PRI-WGBH Boston "The World"