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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. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale. Across the road, peacocks shriek. They must be pets?