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

Civil Eats

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. Grocery stores are scarce.

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