There’s a stretch of land across central Alabama that tells a deeper Southern story than most folks realize. The Black Belt earned its name not from politics, but from its jet-black, mineral-rich soil—soil so fertile that early settlers called it a cotton prairie long before the region was carved into farms. Geographically, the Black Belt runs in a wide arc across south-central Alabama, touching counties like Sumter, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, Wilcox, Butler, and parts of Mon

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