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In 'Go Back and Get It,' Dionne Ford traces the story of her enslaved ancestors | Book of the Day
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8:54Now PlayingNPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Dionne Ford about her new book, Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing. In it, Ford grapples with an old family photograph showing her great-great-grandmother, Tempy Burton, who was enslaved by Colonel W.R. Stuart, her great-great grandfather.
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