Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part One

Code Switch

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker digs into what it means to maintain the legacy of her ancestors. In part one of two episodes, Parker goes to a symposium for descendants of slavery and meets people who, like her, are caretakers of "culturally significant historical places."

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch.
0:02.4	I'm BA Parker.
0:04.5	So, my family comes from a plantation
0:07.2	called Summerset Place.
0:08.8	It's a site that I go past every summer
0:11.4	because my family still has a farm nearby.
0:14.1	They're both in a town called Creswell, North Carolina.
0:17.5	The town's small, about 207 people,
0:20.6	and a lot of them are descendants of Summerset.
0:23.9	My whole life, I've gone to Creswell,
0:26.0	but I've never had to really engage
0:28.4	with the Summerset plantation.
0:30.6	It wasn't intentional.
0:32.0	It's just that you really had to want to go
0:34.7	and who wants to go to a plantation.
0:39.0	Growing up, my family's home in Creswell
0:41.6	felt like my link to my ancestors.
0:44.5	I didn't really need the plantation.
0:47.0	Plus, my mom has always been there
0:50.1	instilling our family's history into me.
0:53.7	Well, we were told that we are descendants
0:57.1	of the original 13th.
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