Podcast 4: Reclaiming My Southern Heritage By Visiting Civil War Sites

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Podcast 4: Reclaiming My Southern Heritage By Visiting Civil War Sites

Jim Buie

Sep 14, 2021

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A White Southerner Tries to Grapple With Family Heritage and History

Jim Buie

April 28, 2021

A White Southerner Tries to Grapple With Family Heritage and History

Growing up in the semi-rural South of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, the civil war did not seem far away. On daily summer forays to the Lumbee River, I routinely passed the shack of a woman born into slavery, marveling that Liza, at 100 years old with a bent back and prune-like hands, managed to walk a mile into town and back nearly every day with a knapsack on her back to fetch vittles.

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It mentions Ken Burns Civil War Series on PBS, which can be watched here.

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