Speaking Truth to Power: A Memoir

From Wikipedia... The end of slavery The war ended in April, 1865 and following that surrender, the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced throughout remaining regions of the South that had not yet freed the slaves. Slavery continued for a couple of months in some locations. Federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, to enforce the emancipation, and that day is now celebrated as Juneteenth in several states. The thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed by the Senate in April 1864, and by the House of Representatives in January 1865.[82] The amendment did not take effect until it was ratified by three fourths of the states, which occurred on December 6, 1865 when Georgia ratified it. On that date, all remaining slaves became officially free.[83] Legally, the last 40,000 or so slaves were freed in Kentucky[84] by the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December 1865. Slaves still held in Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and twelve parishes of Louisiana[85] also became legally free on this date. American historian, R.R. Palmer noted that the abolishment of slavery in the United States without compensation to the former slave owners was an "annihilation of individual property rights without parallel...in the history of the Western world".[86] Economic historian Robert E. Wright argues that it would have been much cheaper if the federal government had purchased and freed all the slaves, rather than fighting the Civil War.[87] Her Grandfather would if he was 10 years old at the end of slavery in 1865 and had children at the age of 45 (1900). So Anita was born in 1956 that would make her father 56. I don't know but having children at those late ages just doesn't cut it with me. I question the authenticity of her Grandfather being a "SLAVE"

I only read a little so far but I am so in awe of this brave modern warrior. Can't wait to keep reading!