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>> no, nobody was taking care of any house this size in america by themselves. >> so obviously there were, if not slaves, there were definitely domestic workers who were -- >> they would have all been slaves. >> yeah. >> wyolah is one of the most intact places of its kind in the south which includes all the original outbuildings, and there are two slave cabins. they were in such disrepair i had to make the decision do you keep it or do you erase history. and a lot of people said that i should just mow them over and plant bushes. but i thought it was the honorable thing to do to restore them be...

If "Black" is capitalized, should "white" be, too? Here's what language experts and Black writers think about the debate on race, culture and what we call ourselves.

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>> it would appear that way. my friend has talked a great deal about how germany has wrestled to the ground the ghosts of its nazi past. we have failed to do that, particularly in the south with our confederate past. the time to do so is now. >> because people are afraid to dus cusit and if you talk about, you're a race baiter. unless you teach people history -- it talks about how elementary school children have to go visit the holocaust. should we do that where you have to go to a plantation, you have to visit slave cabins, you have to go to a cotton field to understand the history of this co...

For sicily shofman and her past came looking for her when remnants of slave cabins were discovered at a notorious plantation in maryland. essence magazine tried to find a descende descendent. they found 27-year-old sicily of atlanta. now, thes the great, great, great, great granddaughter of john murdoch. she and her mother took a trip to the plantation and are joining us for this black history month edition of "what matters." thank you so much for joining us. this is an incredible, powerful story. sicily, i want to start with you. your father passed away when you were 13. you lost him at a you...