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The Daily

‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 5, Part 2 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast. The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations. When it became harder and harder to keep hold of that land, June Provost and his wife, Angie, didn’t know why — and then a phone call changed their understanding of everything. In the finale of “1619,” we hear the rest of June and Angie’s story, and its echoes in a past case that led to the largest civil rights settlement in American history. Guests: June and Angie Provost; Adizah Eghan and Annie Brown, producers for “1619”; and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University and the author of “The Condemnation of Blackness.” Background reading:“The number of black sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana is most likely in the single digits,” Khalil Gibran Muhammad writes in his essay on the history of the American sugar industry. “They are the exceedingly rare exceptions to a system designed to codify black loss.”The “1619” audio series is part of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. Read more from the project here.

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0:00.0

This is his father's grave site.

0:12.5

You see all the flowers on here.

0:14.7

They've been here since father's day.

0:21.5

Father's son Holy Spirit, amen.

0:24.3

Our father who art in heaven, how will be thy name?

0:27.6

Thy kingdom come.

0:28.6

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

0:31.8

Give us this day our daily bread and the rest of us.

0:35.5

We forgive those who trespass against us and leave us not into temptation.

0:40.2

Deliver us from evil, amen.

0:42.8

You know, amen.

0:44.4

We are very full of grace.

0:47.4

Blessed are thou, blessed is the food of the year.

0:53.4

When we buried my dad, you know, when people were trying to console me, the first thing

0:58.2

they would say, you know, look where he's buried.

1:00.0

He's buried right next to the canefield, something that you love.

1:03.4

And that really made me feel good at the time.

1:07.8

You know, made me feel better, I guess I can say.

1:10.2

But after all this happened, I stopped coming to even see my dad because I couldn't, I just,

1:21.8

you know, I just wanted to make him proud.

1:25.2

And when all that happened, I felt like I was letting my dad down.

1:28.4

And it just, you know, he wanted to pass the form down to his kids and his grandkids

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