of slaves from the bradley plantation in escambia county alabama. a slavery reconstruction, the jim crow civil rights movement, this is my family's story of struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom in a context, in a culture that was saturated with injustice and dehumanization. that's so amazing about this narrative, this story, is that not only does my family know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own it. there are members of my family currently living on it as free people who have property rights to it codified and protected by the rule of law. now, how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once slaves on a piece of property, a few generations later actually own the property that they were leaving on, they were being enslaved on? this makes this place absolutely amazing. yes, we notice the progress in our country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not too many countries around the world where you would see sub dominant cultures rise to that level, that status, and