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Jeff Forret

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A Slave Trader’s Office Decor and the Pornography of Capitalism

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.

by Jeff Forret via The Panorama on February 17, 2020
‘A World Turned Upside Down’: How Slavery Morphed into Today’s Carceral State

The story of a former slave trader who later profited by trafficking in convict labor reveals the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.

by Jeff Forret, Isidoro Rodriguez via The Crime Report on January 28, 2020
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The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think

Enslaved woman Charlotte thought she was "free" from the slaveowner. She was wrong.

by Jeff Forret via HNN on November 24, 2019

Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts

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Lithograph of the waterfront in Alexandria, Virginia 1836.

The Life and Death of an All-American Slave Ship

How 19th century slave traders used, and reused, the brig named Uncas.

by Joshua D. Rothman, Benjamin Skolnik via Slate on December 4, 2021

Enslaved People and Divorce in the African Diaspora

Restoring agency to enslaved people means acknowledging not only that they created marriages, but that they ended them, too.

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on March 31, 2018

A Dual Emancipation

How black freedom benefited poor whites.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on April 15, 2017

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