The Last Remnants of Slavery

About the Book

The mission or purpose, Dr. Stovall, endeavors to transmit in this book, "The Last Remnants of Slavery: An African American Dilemma", is support for an intervention that will start a Cultural Revolution for change, to end the last chapter to a chaotic dysfunctional process in the lives of African Americans. There are many historical correct and factual representations about slavery, but until now, there have been no examination of slavery's impact on African Americans. This book is a must read that deals with the Last Remnants from the past that is still influencing the economic, social and political values in African American communities. The processes of the remnants discouraged Africans and subsequent African Americans from any organized effort at providing for their communities' economic, social and political representation that would have allowed self-sufficiency after emancipation and proclamation in 1865.

The Africans' unbeknown to themselves became guardians of the poverty paradigm and past it to their future generations' not just poverty as a lifestyle, but the socialization process that has ensured its perpetuation. The effects of the Last Remnants' tactics have grown roots in the lifestyle of the African American families and communities. The outcome of the Last Remnants is evident by the crime reports, which suggest that 90% of the incarcerated population is made-up of African American's youth between the age of 18 to 38 and 70% are substance abuse related offenses.

About the Author

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.

His professional experience includes over 25 years of analyzing social issues while working in a variety of mental health and substance abuse treatment settings. He has taught sociology courses at the college level for more than ten years.

Dr. Stovall developed, a social intervention approach, the Prevention Education Counseling System (PECS). He used this system to work with real client populations, with an outcome of seventy one percent (71%) successful client completion rate, all of which were African Americans. He believes that it is essential to resolve the deep-rooted, historical based denials, through intergenerational therapy. Dr. Stovall's intent in providing the information contained in The Last Remnants of Slavery: An African American Dilemma is to cause African Americans to realize the deep-rooted cultural remnants of slavery affecting them that lead to a paradoxical controversy that has resulted in African American parents contributing to the incarceration of their children ultimately leading to CJS supervision.