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sea island natives living reminders of trade cotton rice and indigo gullah life is made five benne wafers cast into new daylight the hudu spell is torn away rest easy then this night bridges came and baskets sold the younguns moved to town rich men came and stole our land again to trod us down But some have stayed to tell the tales of how our world began of lands and cultures far away before man had ever owned man

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Date: 3/2/2011 8:40:00 AM
Very enlightening poem...Jimmy
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