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This new book from Morganton resident Leslie McKesson and her Appalachian State University students offers a glimpse into the perspectives of enslaved people in Burke County.
Tales of women doing their part for the patriot cause in the American Revolution are not often told, but the Historic Burke Foundation has preserved stories of some of those