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Sweet (and sticky) redemption
September 29, 2020
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There is no U.S. agricultural history without the expertise and labor of African people who were enslaved across the South, including the Gullah/Geechee people of the lower Atlantic Coast. But the violence of slavery and white supremacy is tied up with the crops that grew the global economy, embedding sugarcane, cotton, rice, and other historic commercial crops with a traumatic legacy.
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Rinne Allen, Sapelo Island, SICARS, Suagarcane, UGA