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

Civil Eats

By the time Byron passed away in 1931, he had accumulated 2,000 acres, on which he grew timber and raised livestock. When Byron died, he willed 200 acres of land and increments of cash to each of his children, but most of them had migrated north because they wanted to get as far away from Warren County as they could, Patrick Brown says.

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The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

Modern Farmer

White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. This particular case centered around whether tribes had to pay local and state taxes on ancestral land that they bought back on the real estate market.