Henrietta Lacks Chapter 1:
Henrietta Lacks Chapter 2:
Chapter 2 demonstrates Henrietta's life as a child. It explains that Henrietta was born in Roanoke, Virginia on August 1, 1920 by her mother was Loretta Pleasant. They also mention that Henrietta had 8 other siblings and how her mothers died after her tenth pregnancy. Her father was lazy and didn't want to raise the kids so he decided to send his children away to his family in Clover, Virginia. The siblings became split up and as time progressed Henrietta ended up living with her grandparents. With her grandparents, she met her cousin, which later becomes her husband, David Pleasant. She and all of her cousins worked the tobacco farms that their family owned to earn enough money during crop season to feed the family for the year. Times passes and Henrietta and David, also called Day, started having children and got married in April of 1941. Soon after, their cousin Fred came back to visit from Baltimore where he worked at a steel company in Sparrow's Point. He convinced Day to come with him and earn enough to move Henrietta and the children there. Finally, when Fred was drafted overseas he gave Day all the money he had saved and Henrietta and her two children left Clover to start a new life.
"Day gives all of his savings to Henrietta and her children so they can start a new life."
"Henrietta's family worked on tobacco farms which helped them gain money to support themselves."
"Henrietta gets married to David Pleasant on April of 1941 and have children to work on the farms."
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