When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy

How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and the Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees. Plants, including trees, hold the transformed breath of decades of humans in their physical form ...These beautiful and majestic beings are undeniable witnesses to lives lived and legacies realized. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named A…