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The Descendants 

Almost 230 years ago, on a Henrico County farm, they became free. And they never left.

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When he was just a child, William Anderson posed a question to his maternal grandfather: "Who owned us?" "He said, 'No one,'" Anderson recalls. "'We were free.'" That was the first hint that there was something unusual about Gravel Hill, the…

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