13th Amendment

The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality

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

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

One hundred fifty years ago this December, the U.S. completed its long process of abolishing slavery. Why did the nation