When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, Beronda L. Montgomery Ronaldo Barata With an eye toward the

With an eye toward the past and the present

Celebrating its fortieth anniversary

These are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics

The hat looks good on both of them

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, Beronda L. Montgomery Ronaldo Barata With an eye toward theHow 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