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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. learns about Priscilla, a slave on a South Carolina plantation. Priscilla was purchased at a slave auction in South Carolina by a rice planter, Elias Ball. She arrived on ...

REFLECTIONS TODAYTo illustrate the reality of “new life passing through pain,” Jesus gives the example of the process of ...