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

Civil Eats

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. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. I was young, I was in my 20s.