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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: March 17, 2013
Caption: Sara Miranda Plummer Clark (1842-1905)
Additional Description: Sara Miranda Plummer was born at Three Sisters plantation in central Prince George’s County. Her mother was a slave on that farm while her father was owned by the Calvert family and lived on the Riversdale plantation in what is now Riverdale Park. When Sarah was eighteen, she was abducted, sold and carried south to New Orleans. Six years later, after the Civil War, Sarah’s brother [Henry Vinton Plummer] found her and brought her to her parents’ home at Riversdale. On the night of her return, a vigil was held to give thanks and this marked the official founding of St. Paul’s Baptist Church.
Submitted: March 30, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p237208
File Size: 2.603 Megabytes

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