Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715--1919

by Karin Lorene Zipf

On an autumn day in 1866, Wiley Ambrose and Hepsey Saunders, two former slaves who lived as husband and wife, received a knock at their door. Three men from a plantation in Brunswick County, North Carolina, presented court-ordered apprenticeship papers authorizing the immediate seizure of the couple's daughters, fifteen-year-old Harriet and thirteen-year-old Eliza. After a brief stay in jail with other children, the sisters were sent to work as plantation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807130451
• ISBN13: 9780807130452
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"