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Archive Home > 2012 > June > 19 > Planting the seeds of survival

Planting the seeds of survival

In the story of black gardeners in America, plants are tied to perseverance and independence

By Michael Tortorello / The Bulletin
June 19, 2012

DONALDSONVILLE, La. — Enslaved Africans did not win their freedom in order to starve. Kathe Hambrick-Jackson knew that much from her work as the founder and executive director of the River Road African American Museum here in this town, 60-odd miles up the Mississippi from New Orleans.

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