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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

This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African