Saturday, 21 March 2026

It was a labor camp system for exiled prisoners of war and victims of kidnapping

The American plantation wasn't the quaint village community that you saw depicted in your history textbook. It was a labor camp system for exiled prisoners of war and victims of kidnapping.

M.W. Twitty, The cooking gene (2017), 5

He follows this up with a hammer of a metaphor about his grandmother who left Alabama at the earliest opportunity she could: 'Once she left Alabama, she never went back to Alabama. The heart of Dixie was her Poland' (Ibid. 56) 

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