Sep 08 2010

Understanding the Relationship between Slavery, Coerced Labor and the Current Prison Industrial Complex

One of my favorite recent books is Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. Here he is on NPR back in 2008 talking about the central premise of his work.  Blackmon’s book helped me to truly understand the connections between slavery, prison labor in a historical context.

You can read the story and listen to audio by clicking on this link.

Or I am going to try to embed the audio here again…