{"id":45,"date":"2020-08-18T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:50:17","slug":"welcome-to-abolition-13-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolition Democracy 13\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abolition Democracy 13\/13 is grounded on the concept of “abolition democracy” that W.E.B. Du Bois developed in his landmark study, <\/span>Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880<\/span><\/i>. In that book, published in 1935, Du Bois\u00a0<\/span>outlined his ambition for a racially just society, which, he argued, required not only the dismantling of chattel slavery, but also the construction of new institutions, new practices, and new social relations that would afford freed Black persons the economic, political, and social capital to live as equal members of society. We discuss Du Bois\u2019s writings and vision at <\/span>Abolition Democracy 2\/13<\/span><\/a> with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak<\/a>, Robert Gooding Williams<\/a>, Flores Forbes<\/a> and Kendall Thomas<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n