Hammy, a black hog who had been inside of roofed shelter ... tumbling around in the hay beside the pig pen — before it jumped the fence. “That’s when I realized that my pigs can defend ...

Another neighbor said he was frustrated that the hog had caused damage on and along his fence. "I have to work 8 hours and then come home and see what a hog did to my property," the neighbor said.

At his farm in South Carolina, Marvin Ross is carrying on the ritual of hog slaughters, a disappearing staple of Black agrarian life. The fifth-generation farmer Marvin Ross, of Peculiar Pig Farm ...