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From the sugar cane plantations in the Dominican Republic, a story of insecurity. And how changes are building more secure lives. Hello and welcome to 21st century. Im daljit dhaliwal. The legacy of slavery in the United States lives on today in South Carolina and georgia. The gullah geechee people, descendents of african slaves, are facing a struggle to hold onto their land and culture. Harmonica playing John Herman Blake up and down this coast there were literally thousands of african descendents. Im John Herman Blake. Im a seventh generation descendent of a woman who was enslaved on an island in the Savannah River on a rice plantation. Most of them came from west africa, sierra leone, and gambia. Music it really began about the 18th century as the atlantic slave trade began to prosper. As people began on acquire property here, who saw the potential for growing rice and cotton, and they began to import africans who were enslaved on plantations. You could buy a plantation, buy 10 to 2

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