{"product_id":"slavery-after-slavery-isbn-9780807021507","title":"Slavery After Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black children and their families, leading to undue hardships for generations to come. In \u003ci\u003eSlavery After Slavery, \u003c\/i\u003ehistorian Mary Frances Berry traces the stories behind individual cases from southern supreme courts to demonstrate how formerly enslaved families and their descendants were systemically injured through white supremacist practices, perpetuated by the legal system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy filling in the family trees of formerly enslaved people to their descendants, Berry documents the intergenerational harm they experienced. The resulting damage of trafficking Black children through apprenticeship laws has been a largely overlooked source of inequality, yet these cases provide specific examples of the kind of economic and physical harm Black families have endured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlavery After Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e tells individual stories, but the fates of their descendants tell our collective American story—contributing powerfully to a case for reparations and restorative justice.PREFACE\u003cbr\u003eViolet Maples’s American Dream\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003ePlumb Lines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003eThe Lost Children of Nathan and Jenney Cox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003eFreeing Henry Comas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3\u003cbr\u003eThe Rescue of Mary Cannon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003eThe Emancipation of Eliza and Harriet Ambrose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003eFighting for the Sons of Samuel and Oliver Adams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of Sarah Lacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003eSaving Simon Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003eThe Mysterious Fate of the Comptons and Tillmans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9\u003cbr\u003eViolet Maples and Boss: The Family Feud That Wasn’t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Bridgeforths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003eTwisted Trees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eSlavery After Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Dorothy Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body, Shattered Bonds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTorn Apart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSlavery After Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor, Yale University, and author of \u003ci\u003eBlack in White Space\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eSlavery After Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e offers moving narratives of the lives destroyed and intergenerational damages wrought by the American failure to implement true Reconstruction.”\u003cbr\u003e—William Darity Jr., coauthor of \u003ci\u003eFrom Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Mary Frances Berry\u003c\/b\u003e is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former chairwoman of the US Commission on Civil Rights, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the author of thirteen books, and the recipient of thirty-seven honorary degrees. Dr. Berry has appeared on \u003ci\u003eReal Time with Bill Maher\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Show\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePBS NewsHour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCBS Evening News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAl Jazeera America News\u003c\/i\u003e, and various MSNBC and CNN shows.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233556738277,"sku":"NP9780807021507","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807021507.jpg?v=1767736749","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/slavery-after-slavery-isbn-9780807021507","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}