Name Of Owner
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Kim Barney
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I found some birth records
for the State of Virginia,
in the year 1862.
The heading of one column reads:
Father's Name in full
if Child be free
and born in wedlock,
or Name of Owner
if Child be born a Slave.
My heart cried
at the inhumanity
of man to man.
Some of the names
in this column
are those of women
(the slave owners) .
How heartbreaking it is
when a person can't even have
his father's name
on his birth certificate.
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