When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy By Beronda L. Montgomery Material:Hard Cover some more than other obviously

some more than other obviously

where they'd spark international outrage for torture

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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy By Beronda L. Montgomery Material:Hard Cover some more than other obviouslyHow the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; sycamore trees were both havens and signposts for people trying to escape enslavement; poplar trees are historically associated