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Lydia Clark

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Lydia E. Clark was a woman from Delaware who the Nanticoke Indian Association, a state-recognized tribe in Delaware, considered to have been the last surviving speaker of the Nanticoke language. Clark testified at an 1855 trial that the Delaware Moors were of African descent.

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