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Slavery After Slavery by Mary Frances Berry
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Slavery After Slavery by Mary Frances Berry
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Jan 21, 2025 | ISBN 9780807007846
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“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

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