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Indian Removal and the Black Belt: Connecting ethnic cleansing and slavery

The 100-million-year story of the Black Belt, a crescent-shaped swath from Virginia to Louisiana, has been told many times – how a geological formation from the Cretaceous, visible today in the dark soils it created, can be seen in the … Continue reading

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