Journaling reads as follows: "In 1985, the sons and daughters of former slaves and former slave owners gathered at Somerset Plantation in Edenton, North Carolina, the birth place of my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Sawyer. Organized by researcher, Dorothy Spruill Redford, three of my father's brothers (Charles, Cornelius and Rupertt, pictured) were there as well as Alex Haley and me." The the other side of the tag attached to the cellophane bag reads as follows: "Shavings from cypress trees planted by my ancestors at Somerset Plantation."
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