When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Binding:Hardcover Great and Free

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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Binding:Hardcover Great and FreeThis stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared 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