CSPAN2 After Words July 28, 2014
Tomlinson hill and when they were freed they loved it so much they took tomlinsonm as their last name. And going through the desegregation they were still segregated into their was a court order so race was very much an important topic in that time and so i was aware of that as a child and the idea that there were black tomlinsons that my family once had as slaves and it just boggles my imagination. And that became an important part of my identity growing up. And white southern culture, having a family that fought in the civil war and that was part of that antebellum law was a big deal. It was...
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