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The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. And yet many details of her story have been lost: We don’t know exactly what happened to Sallie’s mother, or how much Sallie was sold for, or even exactly when the auction took place.

We know that Sallie was sold at an auction held at the Smyth County Courthouse, a brick building that was torn down after the turn of the century, when Mari­on’s current courthouse was constructed. Thompson’s efforts led to the founding of the Mount Pleasant Heritage Museum - housed in a former black Methodist church that Sallie and other freed men and women founded after the Civil War - to preserve the history and culture of African-Americans in the county. This story was told many years later by Sallie’s granddaughter, Evelyn Thompson Lawrence, a local educator and historian in Marion. The tree became the place where she would recall the names and faces of her family members sold away a place where she could grieve, but also a place where she could find shade and respite from her sorrow. All alone, she would wrap her arms around the tree’s wide trunk and cry. For the remainder of her childhood, whenever she could, Sallie would slip away and find solace under a tall white-oak tree.

Sallie, as she was called, was herself sold that day, but not with her mother: A man named Thomas Thurman purchased Sallie to take care of his sick wife. The auction took place in the mid-1840s, in the town of Marion, Va.

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