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

Civil Eats

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 From the main house, we drive at 45 mph for 10 minutes, and were still on former plantation land.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. After World War I, Blacks began to migrate to cities in the North, looking for more opportunityand less lynching.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.