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Joy James

Joy James is F. C. Oakley Professor at Williams College. She is the editor of several anthologies on politics and incarceration, including The New Abolitionists and Imprisoned Intellectuals. Her most recent book is Seeking the Beloved Community.

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Law & Justice, Race

The Roots of Black Incarceration

A nineteenth-century memoir sheds light on the origins of the modern prison.

Joy James

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