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lost legacies - the next stage

firstly, the chemise piece now has a provisional title "baby makers", and it has spread it's reach to the women partners of the male Cantins in my family line up to my grandmother - there are 5 generations of these but 6 partners because the third generat Cantin male married a first cousin, another Cantin so i included both partners of the second generation males - that sounds complicated but makes sense when you see it on a family tree! between them the 6 women had 57 listed recorded children (one had 13!), and only the first, an enslaved woman who had been granted her freedom, was recorded as having a job or profession - she was listed as a dressmaker anyway, once the cage is constructed i will be adding items and embellishments to represent their lives and some elements indicating what i feel they might have missed out on because of the limitations imposed on them the fun part is assembling and creating that collection of items and embellishments i "accidentally&q

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