Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
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. The trailer is still hitched to the old orange tractor they used as they harvested two long rows from a nearby field. Across the road, peacocks shriek.
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