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Slavery, the 13th Amendment, and Mass Incarceration: A Response to Patrick Rael

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

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named