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Richard Habbershem shows his neighborhood, the Phillips Community, one of the many settlements in South Carolina where former slaves homesteaded and many of their descendants still own land.

Richard Habbershem shows his neighborhood, the Phillips Community, one of the many settlements in South Carolina where former slaves homesteaded and many of their descendants still own land. (Logan Cyrus / For The Times)