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A three-part series by Providence Journal staff writer Paul
Davis
She was stolen from Africa. And brought to America
in a ship owned by prominent Rhode Island merchants. Her story is 1 in 11
million. Unlike so many others, it can be told. Two scholars from Brown,
and Yale, along with a group of Rhode Island artists have completed the circle
of her life.
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02.14.2005:
Part two
In Africa, an anthropologist unearths the
remains of a slave route in Sierra Leone. In America, a descendant of
Elias Ball discovers the records of his family's rice plantation.
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