By Brandon Vines “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among them is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” [1] The… Continue Reading
By Mayaki Kimba In her foreword to the 133rd volume of the Harvard Law Review, Dorothy Roberts writes that “today’s prison abolitionists are the heirs to a freedom movement that antislavery activists began.”[1] Embracing this idea, Abolition 13/13 began with… Continue Reading
By Rebecca Stout Using the history of slavery as a grounding for their arguments, Abolition 4/13’s readings incorporated an excellent combination of discussion on the Thirteenth Amendment, methods and archives, and women’s experiences and the role of reproduction in Atlantic… Continue Reading
By Sania Anwar Abolition is a reckoning. A reckoning so profound and exact, in creating and fulfilling the antithetical to what is dismantled, that it can offer redemption along with emancipation. Eric Foner’s “The Second Founding” is the account of… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Childs, Dennis. Slaves of the State- Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary. University of Minnesota Press, 2018 (chapters 2 and 3). Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus… Continue Reading
Abolition Collective. “Our Evolving Mission and Goals.” Abolition Collective, https://www.collectiveforaboliton.org/our-mission. Achiume, E. Tendayi. “Migration as Decolonization.” 71 Stanford Law Review 1509 (2019). Adorno, Theodor W. “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” In V. Meja, D. Misgeld and N. Stehr, eds, Modern… Continue Reading