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When Trees Testify

Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

Beronda L. Montgomery

2026

Henry Holt and Co.

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Botanical plate drawings of budding pecans.

How an Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan Into a Cash Crop

On the unsung contributions of Black and indigenous people to American biology.

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