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Tag Archives: plantations

Musings on the Step-Motherland

March 29, 2014by robertlreece Leave a comment

I think some people have a bad habit of arguing that American born blacks, the descendants of slaves, have no home, that we’re displaced because we can’t trace our origins […]

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Grandma’s Stolen Opportunities

January 10, 2014by robertlreece 2 Comments

I remember going home to Leland sometime near or immediately after my undergraduate graduation. My grandmother, who has been a domestic worker for my entire life, drove me to meet […]

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My Family History Through MS Delta Plantations

December 31, 2013by robertlreece 1 Comment

Plantations have played an integral part in Southern history and the development of Southern culture, but these particular plantations are special because my family sharecropped here, and still lives in […]

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