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For more than 400 years, Africans and their African American descendants sowed seeds, plowed fields, harvested crops, preserved foods and cooked meals for the nation’s tables. As enslaved workers and freed people, Blacks fed presidents, enslavers, commercial giants, wealthy families, their own relatives and friends, and restaurant diners. They labored, created and innovated, seldom receiving …

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