Prison Policy from the Bottom Up
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves:
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The World of Slavery, Kidnapping, and the Slave Trade
One of the enduring ironies of the institution of slavery is that it was wrapped up in the law. While
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Surviving Slavery: Contests Over Bondage in Berbice
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice
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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery
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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship
A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States
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