“I think we should have a chance to redevelop our own proper…

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“I think we shоuld hаve а chаnce tо redevelоp our own property as well as anybody else,” he said. “When you are in this country and you own a piece of property, you’re not a second-class citizen. That’s why my people own this land, they worked for it, they toiled for it. It is land that they own, and they try to hang on to it. But when your land is being taken away from you, and you ain't offered nothing, then you become a peasant — in any man’s country.” Joe Skinner, resident of Africville 1963. Discuss the causes and consequences of the forced relocation of the residents of Africville in the 1960s.

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