What is heirs’ property? A huge contributor to Black land loss you might not have heard of.
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Joe Hamilton loves delving into his family history, although that wasn’t always the case. His interest emerged in 2007 when, a few years before retiring from the Defense Department, he began visiting his county register of deeds office, examining gravestones and deciphering a genealogy written in the pages of an old Bible. He hoped to prove, once and for all, that he and his kin own the small piece of South Carolina that had been in the family since 1874.
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