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Apology accepted — and offered
Jonetta Rose Barras, The Examiner
Aug 4, 2008 2:00 AM (508 days ago)WASHINGTON

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton often talks about how her great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, walked out of Virginia into the District. He was a runaway slave. He arrived in the city nine months before President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in the nation’s capital.

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