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

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

Plantation

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The Food and Farm Bill Must Right the Wrongs of Longstanding Racial Injustice

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

In federal food and agricultural policy, the best vehicle to achieve this change is the food and farm bill. The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. Through this caste system, a few wealthy white landowners grew larger plantations and held most of the land.

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Agriculture Informer

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

The Food and Farm Bill Must Right the Wrongs of Longstanding Racial Injustice

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