When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, Beronda L. Montgomery book fairs2 Discharged from the Union Army

Discharged from the Union Army as a free man after the war’s end

for university

and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning

cookbook author

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, Beronda L. Montgomery book fairs2 Discharged from the Union ArmyHow 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