State funded public schools in rural south Louisiana didn’t teach students attending those schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s anything about the significance of June 19th. I learned of Juneteenth after I left our tiny home dwarfed by the then-abandoned antebellum home across the two lane highway. Acre upon acre of sugar cane fields and the sugar mill that was the heartbeat of the small community clung to the plantation past as though time stood still.
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