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A Princess Found|Sarah Culberson
A Princess Found : An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
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Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a private investigator to track down her biological father. When she began her search, she never imagined what she would discover or where that information would lead her: she was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered a mahaloi, the child of a Paramount Chief, with the status like a princess. What followed was an unforgettably emotional journey of discovery of herself, a father she never knew, and the spirit of a war-torn nation. A Princess Found is a powerful, intimate revelation of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she could one day call her own.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780312628390
  • ISBN-10: 0312628390
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publish Date: May 2010
  • Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.44 x 1.02 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.74 pounds
  • Page Count: 384

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