When he was growing up in Marion, Arthur “Scrapper” Broady knew one of his cousins as Uncle Jim. An eccentric artist who lived in New York City, Uncle Jim talked to Scrapper about stories he’d heard about an enslaved ancestor who fought in the American Revolution and was eventually emancipated.
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