From Emancipation to Incarceration: Power, Policing, and Access to Wealth
When slavery ended in 1865, the story most Americans are taught is that freedom began. What is rarely emphasized is that freedom came without resources. Four million formerly enslaved Black people were released into a nation that had built its entire economy on their unpaid labor. There was no land redistribution. There was no large-scale […]
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