Word: yucca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antique-hunters, became sharecroppers. But they held on to their aristocratic traditions. To ward off outsiders, they married among themselves, had illegitimate children by itinerant whites, but kept strictly apart from Negroes. Almost white, fine-featured. French-speaking and Catholic, the 2,000 mulattoes on Cane River's "Yucca" plantation now share little in common with Negroes except their work and their social position in Southern white society...
...Sotol, a distilled liquor made in Mexico from a yucca-like plant; marijuana, a drug, long common in Mexico, made from a variety of hemp weed...