Monuments Upon the Tumultuous Earth – Boyce Upholt
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The History of the Levees
LZ Granderson: Levees were built by planters to protect their land. He says in practice, only the wealthy could settle along soggy riverside lands. After slavery ended, they exploited sharecroppers to labor in their fields, he writes. In 1927, a massive tide of water bashed downstream, ripping a hundred holes in the Great Wall, he adds.
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