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Laura Smalley’s voice crackles and comes to life. It is 1941, and she is talking
in her native Hempstead, Texas, to a University of Texas professor, John Henry
Faulk, about being enslaved, how she became free on June 19, 1865. That made
Smalley, who then estimated she was 85, one of the last living …
over 3 years ago