As revolutionary echoes from France made London's potentates tremble, cargoes of ex-slaves were dumped on a malarial strip of impossible land.
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In 1896, 1, 500 north Louisiana ex-slaves banned together and formed the North Louisiana Colored Agricultural Relief Association to address educational issues.
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Instead, slavery was replaced by serfdom in the guise of tenant farming that bound the ex-slaves to the land nearly as tightly as the master's chains.