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

Civil Eats

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. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. Oh, what a day, he says.