When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Riley Sager weaving together past and present

weaving together past and present

For a quarter century

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both the living and the dead

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Riley Sager weaving together past and presentHow 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