Edited by Hugh Dougherty and Alex Willemyns | Zenger News Laura Smalley’s voice crackles and comes to life. It is 1941, and she is talking in her native Hempstead, Texas, to a University of Texas professor, John Henry Faulk, about being enslaved, how she became free on June 19, 1865. That made Smalley, who then […]

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