by Dennis Childs - £17.00 University of Minnesota Press (2015)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780816692415 | ISBN 10: 0816692416
In Slaves of the State Dennis Childs argues that the incarceration of black people and other historically repressed groups in chain gangs, peon camps, prison plantations, and penitentiaries represents a ghostly perpetuation of chattel slavery.
With more than 2.3 million people in the country’s jails, prisons, and immigrant detention centers, Childs exposes slavery as a continuing social reality of U.S. empire.
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