When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Alexandra Vasti this snarky illustrated handbook is

this snarky illustrated handbook is equal parts profane

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women

and later hidden from the public

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this book includes a tear sheet of twelve holiday cards and festive foil on the cover

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Alexandra Vasti this snarky illustrated handbook isHow 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