Bountiful Red Acres: Two Farms, Two Families, and a Year on the Land
"Young readers can get a taste of farm life in the North Carolina Piedmont through Bountiful Red Acres. The story chronicles a year in the lives of two neighboring families--one Black and one White--moving from season to season through the year 1900. Despite the racial inequalities built into American life by both law and custom, the Sawyers and Hauser families share an abiding friendship as they rear children, tend crops, and build community. Author Eileen Heyes and artist Dare Coulter bring these real Surry County families to life for readers, offering a vibrant look at neighbors caring for each other as they force a living out of the red clay soil that is known today as Horne Creek Farm State Historic Site"--University of North Carolina Press website.
58 pages
English edition · First published 2023 by Historical Research and Publications Office, Office of Archives and History, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources · ISBN 9780865265028
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