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At least a dozen documented cases emerged of formerly enslaved women forced into marriages with their former enslavers in the years immediately after abolition. Sarah’s story was no longer hidden—it was being told, taught, remembered. Six months later, on a clear October morning, more than 200 people gathered at the restored cemetery that had once been Whitmore Plantation. The overgrown site had been cleared, graves marked with simple stones, and a memorial wall erected listing the names of those known to be buried there. At the center stood a larger monument dedicated specifically to Sarah. It displayed not the wedding portrait, but the only other image Patricia had been able to find: a small daguerreotype of Sarah as a young girl, smiling. Beneath it, an inscription read: "Sarah, born circa 1848, died 1873. Daughter of Dina. Survived slavery. Sought freedom, stolen back into bondage through forced marriage. Her mother never stopped searching. May her story remind us that