Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Early Days in the Tobacco Fields Growing up in the 1980s and 90s, Brown helped out on the farm, mostly with the tobacco crop, after school and over summers. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured.
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