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Plantevigne) was murdered by local whites who had previously ordered him to leave town and fired shots
292:, who was the fifth generation of his family to be born on the River Lake plantation, where his ancestors had been enslaved and then sharecroppers. Gaines left Oscar for California at age 15, and went on to a storied career as a novelist, winning the
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