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How the lineage of one African-American family was traced back to 1789

The Blackwell's Kinfolk Family Tree is the largest in the collections of the Library of Congress, and counts tennis great Arthur Ashe among its descendants. The Virginia family traces its genealogical history all the way back to its first African ancestor in 1789. Nikole Killion has more.
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