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

Civil Eats

With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. The delays in payment could be devastating.