“We Need Your Freedom”: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
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Meaning of freedom
Gender, Slavery, and the Archive in Cuba: An Interview with Aisha Finch
This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies
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Slavery, the 13th Amendment, and Mass Incarceration: A Response to Patrick Rael
This post is a rebuttal to Patrick Rael’s “Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration.” Dear Professor
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Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration
We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New
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Freedom as Marronage as Anti-capitalism
On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally
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