Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. It really is modern-day sharecropping. He found work there as a sharecropper, on a farm down present-day Lickskillet Road.
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