Overview
"With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, herĀ unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." āColson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad
Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys Schoolāthe true story behind the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning novelĀ The Nickel Boysāand the contentious process to exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.
The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and āmysteriousā deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the schoolās management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions.
In the wake of the schoolās shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the schoolās graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, thus beginning the process of reuniting the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. The schoolās poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the schoolās property. The real number was at least twice that. Kimmerleās work did not go unnoticed; residents and local law enforcement threatened and harassed her team in their eagerness to control the truth she was uncoveringāone she continues to investigate to this day.
We Carry Their BonesĀ is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. Itās also a fascinating dive into the science of forensic anthropology and an important retelling of the extraordinary efforts taken to bring these lost children home to their familiesāan endeavor that created a political firestorm and a dramatic reckoning with racism and shame in the legacy of America.Ā Ā
This book title, We Carry Their Bones (The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys), ISBN: 9780063030244, by Erin Kimmerle, published by HarperCollins (June 14, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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