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A Compact for the Good of America? Slavery and the Three-Fifths Compromise, Part II

This is the second part of a two-part survey on the Electoral College, race, and slavery. This post explores the

This post is a rebuttal to Patrick Rael’s “Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration.” Dear Professor

We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted