On Food, Mattress Sales, and Juneteenth
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The Dilemma of Emancipation
During slavery, cooks were forbidden to eat the food they made. Harry jacobs records that people spitting in the pots and couldn't even share with others. Carver was talking about gleam cleaning and com poasting long before it was a household word as ahead of his gon.
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