Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School-the true story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys-and 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 "mysterious" 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 school's management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions. We Carry Their Bones is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it.