Celebrate the Special Anniversary of the book that changed America's understanding of how Blacks survived slavery to become loving parents, with new photos. From Los Angeles to New Orleans, from a nursing home in Kentucky to Piggly Wiggly in South Carolina, Sugar of the Crop recounts her efforts to track down the sons and daughters of parents born before 1865, a generation that everyone believed was dead. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part memoir, Sugar of the Crop tells a rare and intimate story of freed slaves as mothers and fathers, husbands and wives; and why they wanted their children to be "big." Not since the Works Progress Adminstraton gathered Slave Narratives during the Great Depression has a journalist conducted such in-depth primary interview into this period in American history.