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This research project documented, recorded, and analyzed oral interviews with the descendants of enslaved workers from the tidal rice plantations of the Santee Delta in South Carolina. The goal was to fill in some of the missing gaps in the representation of the region's cultural landscape. Most of the written historical records on which the historical narrative of the area is constructed are from the white planters and plantation owners' perspectives. Strikingly, African plantation workers and their descendants' lives have little recorded history, despite the large-scale rice agricultural industry built through their labor. Some missing accounts and other hidden information are embedded within the descendant community's oral traditions, stories, and memories. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, using the research methods of historians, anthropologists, and documentary filmmakers, we investigated the missing narratives through archival research, fieldwork, and video-oral interviews with community members. Through this research, we have created a short 15-minute documentary film. One of the goals of producing the film was to create a public project to share with the individual narrators and community for inclusion in a local museum. Through our oral history project, we have discovered that the cultural history of the Santee Delta includes complex and nuanced negotiation of social relationships between members of the African American descendant community, descendants of former plantation owners, and other community members as individuals navigate through the politics of memory, notions of historical inclusiveness, and ancestral ties to the landscape. Directed, Edited, and Cinematography by: Dr. Robin O'Day and Lauren Marks Bowman