Willie Bosket's True Identity

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To understand Willie Bosket's true identity, you have to understand his lineage and the environment he was raised in. Willie's great- great grandfather, Aaron Bosket, was a slave in one of the most dangerous places in the United States, Edgefield County, South Carolina or "Bloody Edgefield" as it was called. His name appeared on the voting registration rolls for Mount Willing, Edgefield County and this was the first public recording of the Bosket family. Violence has been in Willie's family for generations due to slavery. Willies's father was a killer. His father, Willie Sr., killed two people in a Milwaukee pawn shop shortly after his son was conceived and was sentenced to life in prison. His mother neglected him, so he didn't have any structure

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