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The Carceral City

Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
  • John Bardes
2024
The University of North Carolina Press

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Slavery Is Not a Metaphor

In the aftermath of the American Revolution, southern slaveholders were thinking about what a prison should look like for a society that was economically and socially dependent on slavery.
by John Bardes, Melanie Newport via Public Books on February 12, 2025
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