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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.)
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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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