Prison and Slavery - A Surprising Comparison

Prison and Slavery - A Surprising Comparison
Author: John Dewar Gleissner
Publisher: John Dewar Gleissner
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1432753835
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This historically accurate and thoroughly researched book compares the modern American prison system to antebellum slavery. The surprising comparison proves that antebellum slavery was not as bad as many believe, while modern mass incarceration is an unrealized social and financial disaster of mammoth proportions.


Prison and Slavery - A Surprising Comparison
Language: en
Pages: 458

Prison and Slavery - A Surprising Comparison

Authors: John Dewar Gleissner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-17 - Publisher: John Dewar Gleissner

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This historically accurate and thoroughly researched book compares the modern American prison system to antebellum slavery. The surprising comparison proves tha
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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-27 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed in 1865, has long been viewed as a definitive break with the nation’s past by abolishing sl
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