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| Catharine Almy, 1743, God's Little Acre, NCBG, Newport, RI |
Catharine Almy
wife of Hurrican
Dunbar died
Augst: ye 1st: 1743
Aged about
35 Years.
These stones never cease to astonish me with their concise encapsulation of the cruelties of slavery. Catharine was the wife of a man whose name she could not share. Instead, her surname was the name of the people who owned her. No one knew how old she was, which probably means that she was born in Africa and that Catharine was not the name given to her by her biological family.
See my statement on naming the enslaved here.
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