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They're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors

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Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee. (Dee Dwyer for NPR)
Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee. (Dee Dwyer for NPR)

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