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Celebrating Juneteenth: "T.H. Barnes Shares Stories of Slavery, Freedom, Reconstruction and Modern Times"

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History & Genealogy, Maryland Room
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Storyteller Fanny Crawford shares the life of her great-grandfather, T.H. Barnes, including his childhood memories, anecdotes of his mother’s family of hardy Pennsylvania farmers, both Black and white, and the story of his father who escaped enslavement in Hagerstown, circa 1835.