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A story of young men and women condemned to do the tasks of others with no will of their own trying to find a niche in a world where they are regulated chattel property. And even those who are not chattel property are burdened with the job of proving themselves worthy of civil respect and human treatment. Yet their ingenuity find ways where they can find a balance of life that allows them to become full human beings. The obstacles they overcome are intentional to keep them from becoming fully human and their dignity is assaulted in every instance, yet they manage to prove that they are the very essence of humanity.

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Alif Yah'ya', born Oliver Christi Oates is the twelfth child of John and Alice Oates. He graduated from Sterling High School in Sheffield Alabama before pursuing higher education at Lasalle University and Temple university School of Law in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. His profound mission is to unveil the true history of slavery and to show that life after slavery was not in any way a time of freedom for former enslaved people. He also strives to show that the effects of slavery, and the periods after, such as reconstruction, and Jim Crowism, and even today, have a negative impact on the way that the former slaves see themselves, and the way others treat them.

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