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          Sana Butler is a special correspondent at Newsweek International....

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          Sugar of the Crop tells the story of an unprecedented quest to find the last surviving children of slaves.

          Sana Butler, renowned author of 'Children of the Crop', is the daughter of Peter Vertrees, born in Kentucky.

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          5. In a revealing journey that takes her from Los Angeles to Louisiana, from a Harlem church to a Virginia nursing home, Sana Butler paints a fascinating picture of freed slaves as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, and tells the story of how they raised children after the Civil War.
          Drawing on a decade of interviews with centenarians whose parents were slaves, Butler reveals how African Americans emerged from slavery with a powerful drive to put the past behind and a deep commitment to make the most of their opportunities, large and small.

          Like immigrants, freed slaves faced a new America with hopes and dreams for their children and the nation’s future. Impelled by a generation that exercised political power at a rate never again seen in this country, the sons and daughters were raised to be independent and often fearless thinkers, laying the groundwor