Hey, Uncivil listeners, it's Ginger-I. We've got something to make you want to stop and

turn up your headphones. Have you heard Gimlett show the night? We listened to the

night all the time, and we recently heard a story that we really think on civil listeners

will love. It's called Snakes on a Plantation, the Hairstons Part One. It's about a woman

named Everly Hairston, who recounts the shared history of her family and the family that

enslaved them and how they stayed intertwined way after emancipation. And yes, there's

also Snakes. Here's Eric Eddings with the story.

From Gimlett Media, this is the night. I'm Eric Eddings.

Today I'm going to tell you a story about a plantation. It was called Coolie Me, and

on it there used to be two homes. One was the big house. It was a house the plantation

was known for. This massive white, three-story home, shaped kind of like a cross. The Hairstons

lived there. They were the masters of the plantation, known for their immense well. And

just a short walk from the big house was a very different home. It was a log cabin, no

running water, no bathroom. It housed up to 11 people, a family, the Hairstons. They

tended to plantations crops, mostly corn and cotton. They also worked in the big house,

cooking the hearstons meals and cleaning for them. A black family serving a rich white

family on a plantation is a familiar story. But this isn't that because these two families

they shared this relationship with one serving the other way passing end of slavery,

through reconstruction, through both world wars, through brown versus board, Marluth

the King's rise and assassination all the way to the 1970s. Today on the nod, we tell

the story of these two families that for 100 years after the Civil War seemed trapped

in amber, and about one woman who broke out of that amber and then shattered it for

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