Mary Frances Berry

Slavery After Slavery (eBook, ePUB)

Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An 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 While 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 Slavery After Slavery, historian 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. By 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. Slavery After Slavery tells individual stories, but the fates of their descendants tell our collective American story-contributing powerfully to a case for reparations and restorative justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807007846
• Artikelnr.: 70427035

Autorenporträt

Dr. Mary Frances Berry 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 Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show, PBS NewsHour, CBS Evening News, Al Jazeera America News, and various MSNBC and CNN shows.

Inhaltsangabe

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