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- Babysitting and Whooping Cough
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- Dealing with Prejudice in Edmonton
- Family Success
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- From Provost to Edmonton
- Grandma, Diabetes, and Fire
- High School in Provost
- Learning to Cook — Oil Rigs
- Learning Tolerance
- Mother
- Prejudice in Edmonton
- Racism at School
- Selling the Family Farm
- Siblings and Farming
- Slave Mentality
- Soul Food
Slave Mentality
All of Marjorie's mother's sisters came with her from North Carolina to Canada. Her mother, one generation from slavery, was likely still somewhat consumed by fear when she came to Canada and referred to herself and to her sisters as “tarheels.” It was not uncommon for Blacks—particularly those descended of slaves—to be fearful of Whites and for Whites to think of Blacks as one level above monkeys. These are just some manifestations of the slave mentality.