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Williams' Gang

A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts
  • Jeff Forret
2020
Cambridge University Press

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Illustration of slavecatchers surrounding a fugitive.
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‘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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