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Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed in 1865, has long been viewed as a definitive break with the nation’s past by abolishing slavery and ushering in an inexorable march toward black freedom. Slaves of the State presents a stunning counterhistory to this linear narrative of racial, social, and legal progress in America.
Dennis Childs argues tha ...more
Dennis Childs argues tha ...more
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Hardcover, 280 pages
Published
February 27th 2015
by Univ Of Minnesota Press
(first published February 15th 2015)
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