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Quayblue

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7. My maternal family picked cotton

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Fri Jul 6, 2018, 03:50 AM

Jul 2018

as sharecroppers up until the early 70s. And before that, they were slaves. There are none of them alive now (who were born in the 1940s) except for one of my aunts.

I believe PTSD led to their early deaths, though they managed to migrate North.

There is nothing entertaining about cotton's legacy.

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