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enslavement in which the law was jthe forge that hammered chains of bondage onto a mother and her children.
America, the land of the free, was still the land of the enslaved in 1846. Northern states had abolished slavery and voices cried out over the injustices of that heinious institution but in Virginia and in Rappahannock County, the system that allowed children to be sold away from the mothers and fathers still flourished.
Kitty Payne and her two children, Mary and Eliza, were victims of that flourishing system. They were the property of Samual
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