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Carceral Studies and Same-Sex Intimacy

January 12, 2021January 10, 2021 Timothy Stewart-Winter #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, LGBT, mass incarceration, prisons, sexual violence, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert T. Chase’s book, We

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The Multiple Layers of the Carceral State

January 11, 2021January 10, 2021 Dan Berger #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert Chase’s We Are

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Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp

December 4, 2020December 1, 2020 Warren Milteer North Carolina, racism, Resistance, slavery, South, Virginia

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a

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How the Nation of Islam Pioneered Prison Protest

November 16, 2020November 23, 2020 Joshua Clark Davis #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, police brutality, policing, prisons

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

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Distinguishing Abolition from Reform

September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 Sasha Turner #CapitalismandSlavery, abolition, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, imperialism, race, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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