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These are the exact cabins where the Tales of Br'er Rabbit were recorded for the very first time. There used to be about 70--now only 4 are standing. (You can see the whole row in the photo-of-a-photo above.) It was incredibly unsettling to be in slave cabins--a first for this California girl. These four were continuously occupied until 1977, when everybody moved into little houses and mobile homes right across the road. Many people in and around Vacherie are descended from people who were enslaved at Laura.
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These are the exact cabins where the Tales of Br'er Rabbit were recorded for the very first time. There used to be about 70--now only 4 are standing. (You can see the whole row in the photo-of-a-photo above.) It was incredibly unsettling to be in slave cabins--a first for this California girl. These four were continuously occupied until 1977, when everybody moved into little houses and mobile homes right across the road. Many people in and around Vacherie are descended from people who were enslaved at Laura.
That is just terrible and horrible how they treated slaves, not just the Africans that came to this country forced, but slaves from around the world. Including their "minorities" Well you know what they say, people generally try to destroy or enslave what they are afraid of. It is part of history though.
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