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

by Mary Frances Berry

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807007838
• ISBN13: 9780807007839
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.