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Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations (Real Voices, Real History)

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All through the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences All through slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The interviews conducted with the former Louisiana slaves regularly showed a different life from the slaves in neighboring states. Louisiana was once unique some of the slave-holding states as a result of French law and influence, as demonstrated in the standards set to govern slaves in Le Code Noir. Its history was once also different from many Southern states as a result of the prevalence of large sugar cane in addition to cotton plantations, which benefited from the frequent replenishment of rich river silt deposited by Mississippi River floods. At Frogmore Plantation, which is located in Louisiana across the Mississippi River from Natchez, co-owner Lynette Tanner has spent 16 years researching and interpreting the slave narratives with the intention to share these stories with visitors from all over the world. The plantation offers historical re-enactments, written by Tanner, that are performed by descendants of former Natchez District slaves. In this collection, Tanner gathered interviews conducted with former slaves who lived in Louisiana at the time of the interviews in addition to narratives with those who had been enslaved in Louisiana but had moved to a different state by the 1930s. Their recollections of food, housing, clothing, weddings, and funerals, in addition to remedy and relationships echo memories of an era, like no other, for which The united states still has repercussions today.

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