title: The Last Remnants of Slavery: An African American Dilemma
author: Arthur J. Stovall Ph. D
description: Dr. Arthur J. Stovall was born June 25, 1941, in a small town, Magnolia Arkansas. As a child, he spent most of his developmental years with his grandfather, Elmer Willingham born in 1887, who was a sharecropper. Elmer talked often about the social, economic, and political needs of Black people. Dr. Stovall has a keen sense of what those needs are and how to address them in a way that resolves the past and present affirmative action issues. He knows what it takes to reduce prison recidivism rates and the number of African American youth supervised by the Criminal Justice System (CJS). He provides standardized workshops for treatment providers or on request of church, social, economic, and political groups.
zlib_text: **Alvin Maker 3 - Prentice Alvin**
  
   **Alvin Maker 3 - Prentice Alvin**
  
  PRENTICEALVIN
  
  PRENTICE ALVIN
  
  The Tales of Alvin Maker, Volume 3
  
  by Orson Scott Card
  
    
  
  © 1989 by Orson Scott Card
  
    
    
  
   **Alvin Maker 3 - Prentice Alvin**
  
  **Chapter 1 -- The Overseer**
  
  Let me start my history of Alvin’s prenticeship where things first began to go
  wrong. It was a long way south, a man that Alvin had never met nor never would
  meet in all his life. Yet he it was who started things moving down the path
  that would lead to Alvin doing what the law called murder—on the very day that
  his prenticeship ended and he rightly became a man.
  
  It was a place in Appalachee, in 1811, before Appalachee signed the Fugitive
  Slave Treaty and joined the United States. It was near the borders where
  Appalachee and the Crown Colonies meet, so there wasn’t a White man but
  aspired to own a passel of Black slaves to do his work for him.
  
  Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned.
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