I was 19, I was still in college and I wasn't really, you know, I wasn't a history buff and,

you know, of course, slavery, we all knew, slavery, we all knew of the history, but I went

to a predominantly white high school, so it was like one chapter and that was it.

This is Tomlund Polite.

Back in 1992, Tomlund was a freshman at South Carolina State, which is about an hour and

a half from where she grew up in Charleston.

One day, as she's going about her business, her dad calls.

My dad's like, I think she's coming over the weekend.

When Tomlund gets home, she walks in to find her dad standing over her kitchen table.

There's a family tree laid out and there's a man, a white man, there with her dad.

Tomlund didn't recognize the man, but she did recognize a couple faces on the family

tree.

I know that's my dad, you know, and this is my granddad.

The strange man standing in her kitchen was Edward Bull.

All had contacted Mr. Polite for one reason.

He had a connection to their family tree.

He kept going back and back and back and he said, I have traced through my family's records,

your family's records to this little girl who was named Priscilla by my ancestors.

He said, we don't know her real name, but we know that she was called Priscilla once

she was purchased by Laias Ball.

The moment was surreal.

The descendant of a slave owner had come looking for the descendants of the enslaved.

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