Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2

1619

Society & Culture, History, News

4.6 • 32.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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. On today’s episode: 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.” “1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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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, thy kingdom come, thy will be done
0:29.5	on earth as it is in heaven.
0:31.8	Give us this day our daily bread in the cross.
0:35.5	We forgive those who trespass against us.
0:38.1	We leave this not into temptation.
0:40.2	Deliver us from evil, amen.
0:42.8	You know, may we put a grace on order with thee.
0:45.2	Blessed are thou, most blessed is the food of the year.
0:48.3	And the year of the year of the year 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 says, he's buried right next to the cane field, 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 just, I couldn't,
1:19.6	I just, 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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