Slavery After Slavery
By Mary Frances Berry
By Mary Frances Berry
By Mary Frances Berry
By Mary Frances Berry
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$27.95
Jan 21, 2025 | ISBN 9780807007839
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Jan 21, 2025 | ISBN 9780807007846
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$27.95
Jan 21, 2025 | ISBN 9780807007839
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Jan 21, 2025 | ISBN 9780807007846
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Praise
“Basing her work on ten compelling court cases, Mary Frances Berry brings to life a horrific chapter of post–Civil War history that has been woefully overlooked: the virtual re-enslavement of Black children as forced laborers to enrich white adults through court-ordered apprenticeships. Slavery After Slavery is essential reading to understand—and contest—the racist structures that survived Emancipation and continue to deny Black people equal status and family autonomy in America today.”
—Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Torn Apart
“Slavery After Slavery tells an essential part of the story of slavery that must be told. It is a brilliant, truth-telling narrative that is groundbreaking, bracing, and enormously good—a work of importance.”
—Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor, Yale University, and author of Black in White Space
“A heart-wrenching series of vignettes on white slaveholders acting to maintain ownership and control over the lives of Black children through the ‘apprenticeship’ mechanism under the Black Codes . . . At its core, Slavery After Slavery offers moving narratives of the lives destroyed and intergenerational damages wrought by the American failure to implement true Reconstruction.”
—William Darity Jr., coauthor of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Table Of Contents
PREFACE
Violet Maples’s American Dream
INTRODUCTION
Plumb Lines
CHAPTER 1
The Lost Children of Nathan and Jenney Cox
CHAPTER 2
Freeing Henry Comas
CHAPTER 3
The Rescue of Mary Cannon
CHAPTER 4
The Emancipation of Eliza and Harriet Ambrose
CHAPTER 5
Fighting for the Sons of Samuel and Oliver Adams
CHAPTER 6
The Case of Sarah Lacy
CHAPTER 7
Saving Simon Mitchell
CHAPTER 8
The Mysterious Fate of the Comptons and Tillmans
CHAPTER 9
Violet Maples and Boss: The Family Feud That Wasn’t
CHAPTER 10
The Other Bridgeforths
CONCLUSION
Twisted Trees
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes