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Conquer the Soil : Black America and the Untold Stories of Our Country's Gardeners, Farmers, and Growers - Abra Lee

Conquer the Soil

Black America and the Untold Stories of Our Country's Gardeners, Farmers, and Growers

Author: Abra Lee

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Conquer the Soil profiles 45 hidden figures of horticulture--the Black men and women whose accomplished careers in the plant world are little known or untold. Among them are Wormley Hughes, an enslaved African-American who was head gardener at Monticello and dug Jefferson's grave; Annie Vann Reid, an ex-teacher turned entrepreneur in South Carolina who owned a five-acre greenhouse and nursery in the 1940s that sold millions of plants and seeds; and David August Williston, a graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American landscape architect, a student of Liberty Hyde Bailey, and the designer of the Tuskegee University campus. The lively text is enriched by illustrations of each individual, making this a beaituful package. In Conquer the Soil, Abra Lee--a rising star in the plant world--gives these women and men the spotlight they deserve and enriches our collective understanding of the history of horticulture.

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