
Close to the Chest
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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Do You Have a Birth Certificate?
The birth certificate is a huge thing because it not only substantiates the day that somebody was born. I have a story, a tenfold season that you'll hear about eventually. It's from 1766 in Williamsburg, Virginia. And I spoke to a woman there whose family had been there for generations and generations into the 1700s earlier. But she said she knew nothing because her relatives were all black. She had no documentation versus her friends who were white and had plenty of documentation from their families.
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