Topic: Fannie Lou Hamer

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64: We Are People 2
3:46:01 - 3:51:14

64: We Are People 2

The Plantation Myth and Benevolent Slavery

A clip from "The Heritage of Slavery" features a white woman describing the "lovely happy time" on plantations where slaves were treated "like children." The hosts analyze this "plantation myth" and how it transitioned into sharecropping after the Civil War. Virginia Durr's grandmother is described as a "Queen Bee" who lived in a romanticized world of domestic service and racial hierarchy.