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Lettuce, Slavery, and the Bibb Legacy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Introduction

This episode was supposed to be another installment of oponimous food tat went a different way, though it is not. It really unfurled quite quickly into a much bigger and much more important story about the family of a man who cultivated lettuce in his later life. We are going to read a lot from writings that were composed in the 18 hundred so of course, some of the language there is a bit outdated. A but first we are going to talk about bib lettuce and the man who cultivated it.

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