 Linda Brown agrees. She believes that these land titles could certainly add legitimacy to the idea that descendants of the enslaved are owed something. Because learning this history now, it puts a lot in perspective, including the way she looks at her home. It was a joke for me to even think that I wasn't going to live on a plantation in Georgia. What was I thinking? Thinking about what this land used to be, what this land could have been. It's uncomfortable, even painful.