For about $300, a 9-year-old girl named Ashley was sold as a slave.
Her mother, Rose, remained a "house servant" at a mansion in South Carolina.
This was the 1850s, roughly a decade before Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, setting slaves free.
Before mother and daughter were...
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