Willie Haynes continues to share his experiences as the son of a sharecropper during the 70’s in Calhoun County Georgia. He shares his stories of the “rolling store” and decision to join the US Army. As I listen to my friend, Willie, tell his story, I imagine the estimated four million Africans-in-America who were released from slavery with nothing, but a statement of “you’re free.” They were released with zero advancements after 246 years of being in America. They were not immigrants; they were deemed property. This is an African American factual story.