"You wrote to know what day of the month Marshall's birth day came on? It is the 27th so he is now five years old, and Mother hopes that he is a good boy, so that everyone that knows him will love him." In March 1853, Amanda Trulock sent that message from her plantation in Jefferson County to her sister Marcia, who was helping to raise four of Amanda's five children in Bridgeport, Conn.

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