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    1. See informationwanted.org for a harrowing archive of ads like these. Also Heather Andrea Williams's book, To Find My People. @clintsmithiii/876941640715423748
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    Williams movingly documents the trauma of "ambiguous loss" that enslaved people felt after being separated from kin by the slave trade.
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      "Despite painful losses," she writes, many "continued to invest emotional capital in ... finding those whom they had lost" (Williams).
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        "Not everyone survived the emotional torment…Not everyone was strong & resilient, & certainly no one was strong all of the time." (Williams)
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          The trauma of "ambiguous loss" was one of the many traumas that resulted from a domestic slave trade that struck @Every3Minutes.
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            @Every3Minutes "I have one child who is buried in Kentucky and that grave is pleasant to think of," said formerly enslaved abolitionist Lewis Hayden. ....
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              @Every3Minutes "I’ve got another that is sold nobody knows where, and that I can never bear to think of," said Hayden. nbhistoricalsociety.org/Important-Figures/lewis-hayden/
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