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

Civil Eats

As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. 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.