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The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality

August 25, 2022August 17, 2022 Alani Golanski 1 Comment
13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, law, Supreme Court, Voting Rights

The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 Sally Greene Black women, Freedom Suits, law, North Carolina, slavery

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

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Prison Policy from the Bottom Up

January 11, 2021January 10, 2021 Amanda Hughett #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, law, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*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

August 10, 2020August 18, 2020 Derek Litvak law, slave trade, slavery

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

March 26, 2020March 22, 2020 Andrew Kettler African Diaspora, law, slavery, South America

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice

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