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A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All

by Sarah Culberson

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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 Africanroyalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered amahaloi,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.… (more)
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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 Africanroyalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered amahaloi,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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