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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

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

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

Power does not enter the story once and for all, but at different times and from different angles. It precedes

What would a memorial to slavery look like? What story would it tell? What function would we want it to