Harvesting History
“It’s a little patch,” Michael Twitty says. “But it tells a lot of stories, and they use every inch of the grounds to give you as much of the picture as possible”
Tucked into the northernmost reaches of the elegant tree-lined streets of Buck-head, in Atlanta, lies a little-known and often-overlooked gem of great historical significance: the enslaved people’s garden at Smith Farm, a spread on the campus of the Atlanta History Center meant to illustrate what a working slaveholding farm would have been like.
Standing there, it’s easy to forget that
