Professor Reichel discusses his articles “Southern Slave Patrols as a Transitional Police Type” and “The Misplaced Emphasis on Urbanization in Police Development.”
Philip Reichel on Slave Patrols Origins of the Police
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Adam Malka on the Rise of Police and Criminalization of Black Freedom
Professor Malka discusses his book, The Men of Mobtown, which explores how the free black population of the antebellum South came to be controlled and policed.
Professor Atiba Ellis on the Courts, Reparations, Truth, and Reconciliation
Professor Ellis discusses his essay Polley V. Ratcliff: A New Way To Address an Original Sin? on a fascinating court case, recently resolved, involving kidnapping, slavery, and freedom which might serve as a roadmap for a type of Truth and Reconciliation style reparation.
Alexander Reinert on Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the Eighth Amendment
Prof. Reinert discusses his article “Reconceptualizing the Eighth Amendment: Slaves, Prisoners, and ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Punishment.”
Manisha Sinha on Reparations History and Future
In this interview, Professor Sinha discusses the history of the Reparation Movement and its successes and failures.
Multigenerational Reparations with Professor Thomas Craemer
In this interview, Professor Craemer looks at past reparations for slaveowners in the United States and Great Britain as successful examples of multi-generational payments. We go into the math of how Black reparations might be calculated, as well.
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The Case Against Reparations with Dr. Reginald Bell
Dr. Bell discusses his article “The Unintended Consequences of Promising Black Americans Reparations” in which we talk about Black American enslavers, the difficulty of assigning reparation responsibility, and just how to frame the questions surrounding potential slavery reparations.
Talking Reparations with Dr. Michael Conklin
In this interview we discuss Prof. Conklin’s paper An Uphill Battle for Reparationists: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Slavery Reparations Rhetoric.
The 1619 Project and Its Detractors
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, from The New York Times, which "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United...