To: Alberta's Child
If I remember correctly, they grew tobacco on the plantation where he lived.Ah, as they did on my Grandma's sharecropped fields.
I wish my dad were alive so I could tell him he ran away from a plantation.
285 posted on
04/06/2005 3:14:00 PM PDT by
iconoclast
(Conservative, not partisan.)
To: iconoclast
"Plantation" is a term that Douglass himself used, perhaps because he grew up on a "farm" that was among 20 or 30 different farms owned by the same man in Maryland at the time.
286 posted on
04/06/2005 3:23:18 PM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
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