When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Riley Sager and a wealth of information

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In each story

the power of love to get us through life

both the living and the dead

leaving them to carry the burden of this secret alone

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Riley Sager and a wealth of informationHow the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, 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