"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.