Non-Boring History

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No Place Like Home in the Promised Land

No Place Like Home in the Promised Land

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD People Who Spent Their Lives Being Exploited Find Freedom and a Future in the Most Unlikely Place. Annette Pays a Long Anticipated Visit to Nicodemus, Kansas.

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Sep 30, 2023
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Black man in baseball cap and glasses with caption Gil Alexander
The late Gil Alexander, Kansas farmer, resident of the town of Nicodemus, and descendant of the Kentucky freedpeople who settled the community. Image: Annette Laing, 2023
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