In 2024, Dr. Joy and Jo Banner, through their organization The Descendants Project, purchased Woodland Plantation, making them the first Black owners of the property in its more than two-hundred-year history.

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My maternal family’s origins are throughout South Louisiana, especially St. Landry Parish.

In addition, my 2nd Great Mawmaw, Mary Emilda Stelly-Payne (1893), was the child of Julien Stelly and Louise Liza Williams-Stelly.

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Louisiana Creole, (Afro) Biracial People and Blackness

by my friend, @say_morie

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