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Revitalising Chesapeake Bay: grassroots initiatives to combat nutrient pollution
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Indigenous peoples have long relied on the bay for food and their livelihoods, fishing its waters and cultivating crops along its shores. Local tribes like the Pamunkey and Mattaponi carry on their traditions there today. In the time of slavery, maritime labour provided one of the few opportunities for black workers to be treated as equal to whites, with seamen granted legal protections as American citizens.
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