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Menemin's Journey from Freedom in Africa to Enslavement at Fort Hill

By Julia Lagnese
Born a free woman around 1740, Menemin was captured and sold into slavery in Africa. She was then forced to take the tumultuous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to South Carolina where she was purchased by her enslavers, the Calhoun family. Mememin…
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