In the 1800s and up until the 1960s, it was not uncommon for a Haywood County African American farming family to contain an extra person or persons. This person, generally an unmarried male, was sometimes a relative; sometimes there was no blood relationship. The man lived with the family and worked the farm. He plowed, …
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