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

Civil Eats

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. This morning, while he waits for help, he reaches a pitchfork up into a back compartment of the machine to pull out the straw that got stuck. Oh, what a day, he says. I cant cut wheat until I get that fixed. He nods approvingly.