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Posted on January 3, 2013 by Ryan Teague Beckwith

Hyattsville’s Very Own ‘Roots’

It wasn’t popular to talk about slavery in 1927. But Nellie Arnold Plummer took out a $1,000 mortgage to tell her family’s story. The Hyattsville-area schoolteacher was well into her 60s when she self-published “Out of the Depths, or, The Triumph … Continue reading →

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