By looks alone, it was a regular family reunion. Beside the washer pit, a game of dominoes broke out, and between the swatting of flies and the clanking of dominoes on the wooden picnic tables came the drone of brotherly trash talk.
DISCOVERING their past
Families with heritage in Bunceton slavery unite to celebrate their connection
Sunday, June 24, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 6:09 a.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008
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