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In the late 1800s, William Dove did something remarkable. A man who’d been enslaved purchased 36 acres of land in what’s now Potomac, Maryland for $210. It was an investment in a future he’d never see and proof that he and his family belonged there.
But over the decades, that land was stripped away and became eminent domain. Of
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