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By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller Try to imagine being captured from an overloaded boat on open water and sold to a notorious Alexandria slave trader. For two young sisters, whose memory is honored in Alexandria, April 1848 marked the start of a seven month-long period of fear, abuse and uncertainty. The stage had been set in the two decades preceding the American Civil War, when northern Virginia’s soil – depleted from a century of tobacco – caused the demand for enslaved labor to decline. Plantation owners began to sell field hands and house servants to the Deep South, and Alexandria became one of the most infamous trailblazers in the slave trade.

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