(Source: ASLH)
Since one year, the American Society
for Legal History has been making a legal history podcast on new books in legal
history.
Talking Legal History is a
podcast hosted by Siobhan M. M. Barco, a former litigator and current doctoral
student in history at Duke University, whose work focuses on the space where
law, gender, and print culture intersect.
The latest episode:
In this episode, Siobhan talks
with Robert Chase about his book, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced
Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America (University of North Carolina
Press, 2020). Chase is Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook
University.
In We Are Not Slaves Chase draws
from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners to narrate the
struggle to change prison from within. Told from the vantage point of the
prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly
important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the
United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past
to the mass incarceration of today.
This episode is part of a series
featuring legal history works from UNC Press. Support for the production of
this series was provided by the Versatile Humanists at Duke program.
All info about the podcast can be
found here
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