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

Civil Eats

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. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. I was young, I was in my 20s.

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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there. I have an agricultural background, so I could talk about my favorite breeds of cattle and joke with them about why green tractors are inferior to red ones. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification.

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