When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Thomas Schlesser Abandoned by her parents and

Abandoned by her parents and rescued by the RSCF

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War

and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Swan Song

The body is discovered to be a local politician’s wife

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Thomas Schlesser Abandoned by her parents andHow 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