Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. 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. It really is modern-day sharecropping. Across the road, peacocks shriek.
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