Scars on the Land An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South watergate elementary-classroom environments and pre-service settings

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Drawing on little-known surviving liturgical sources as well as other written evidence

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Boucher uses legal storytelling to document individual migrant experiences and

Scars on the Land An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South watergate elementary-classroom environments and pre-service settingsThey worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and insects from the crops, trod barefoot in the mud as they hoed rice fields, and endured the sun and humidity as they planted and harvested the fields. By night, they clandestinely took to the woods and swamps to