Reckoning with the debts of white supremacy in the U.S. does not stop at emancipation. If the newly freed had been compensated for their stolen labor, offered land and tools, education, medical care, and political and social equality, we would be in a different place today. But the violence, injustice, and life-maiming limitations inflicted on African Americans continued to exist in different guises, even a hundred years later; indeed, to this very day. These facts require that white people inquire deeply into the aftermath of slavery, the failures of white people and their communities to recognize and reckon with their debts and the continuing toll of white supremacy on Black individuals, families, and communities. One can trace the afterlives of slavery through time by researching the living conditions, economic arrangements, political power, state and extra-state violence, policing practices, access to medical care and housing, and incarceration rates in particular places deeply affected by slavery. In this chapter, the author shares an example of such a tracing in Fayette County, Tennessee, the county where four of her great-great-grandparents lived. It is a tracing that while incomplete is illustrative of conditions for African Americans in many parts of the South, and, to varying degrees, elsewhere in the U.S.