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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

Plantation

Plantation Farming Farming Acre

The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Community leaders are now in conversation with the corporation that owns the pistachio farm.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism

Agriculture Informer

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

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