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Feeding the Machine: The Commodification of Black Bodies from Slavery to Mass Incarceration
Is the Third Time the Charm? Reconstructing Personhood and Reimagining “We the People”
Emancipation of Slaves in the State of New York
The Czar and the Slaves: Two Puzzles in the History of International Arbitration
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: a Forgotten Crime Against Humanity
Litigating Slavery's Reach: A Story of Race, Rights, and the Law During the California Gold Rush
Creating Law Through Regulating Intimacy: The Case of Slave Marriage in Nineteenth-century New York and the United States
10 Facts About Slave Breeding That Schools Failed To Teach You (Video)
Overseers, Whiteness, and the Contradictions of the Slave System
Freedom Seekers: The Transgressive Constitutionalism of Fugitives from Slavery
How Negro Slavery Provided Capital for the Industrial Revolution
Down on the Old Plantation: African Americans and their Progeny
The Forgotten Story, Enduring Legacy, and Meaning of Slavery in America
“Like Master, like Man”: Constructing Whiteness in the Commercial Law of Slavery, 1800-1861
Slavery in American Jurisprudence (Synopsis)
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Book Review)
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford
Bankrupted Slaves
General Court Responds to Runaway Servants and Slaves (1640)
Slavery: Federal Cases 1783 through 1864
Slavery Federal Cases 1850 - 1865
Slavery Federal Cases - 1835 - 1849
Law Articles on Slavery and Reparations
Slavery Federal Cases - 1790
Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting AfricanAmericans
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Fugitive Slave Law - 1850
Slave Codes of the State of Georgia, 1848
Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
The Rule of Law and the Genesis of Freedom: A Survey of Selected Virginia County Court Freedom Suits (1723-1800)
Petition for Freeom: MAHONEY v.ASHTON (1799)
Financial Freedom Suits: Bankruptcy, Race, and Citizenship in Antebellum America
The Fancy Trade and the Commodification of Rape in the Sexual Economy of 19th Century U.S. Slavery
Distant Voices Then and Now: The Impact of Isolation on the Courtroom Narratives of Slave Ship Captives and Asylum Seekers
Chief Justice Roger Taney's Defense and Justice Thurgood Marshall's Condemnation of the Precept of Black Inferiority
The Ten Precepts of American Slavery Jurisprudence
Articles Sell Best Singly: the Disruption of Slave Families at Court Sales
Echoes of Slavery II: How Slavery's Legacy Distorts Democracy
Morals of Slavery (1837)
From Status to Agency: Abolishing the “Very Spirit of Slavery”
The Supreme Court and Slavery in the 1850s
An Essay on Slavery's Hidden Legacy: Social Hysteria and Structural Condonation of Incest
The Ten Precepts of American Slavery Jurisprudence
Race, the Rule of Law, and the Merchant of Venice: from Slavery to Citizenship
Slave Trade Statistics
Opinions of Early Presidents about Slavery
William Lynch & The Slave Consultant's Narrative (Urban Myth)
Lincoln on Slavery
The Trials and Tribulations of Josephine
Racism: The Rhetorical Pacifier of Moral Qualms about Slavery
How the Proslavery Constitution Shaped American Race Relations
American Slavery: the Complete Story
The Ten Precepts of American Slavery Jurisprudence
A Different View African American Civil War Stories
The Freedmen's Bureau's Judicial Powers and the Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment as a Model for Revolution
From Racial Discrimination to Separate but Equal: the Common Law Impact of the Thirteenth Amendment
Ku Klux Klan and Sexualized Racism/Gendered Violence
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
Post Reconstruction Justice
Why Did Firms Practice Segregation? Evidence from Movie Theaters During Jim Crow
Half American, Half Amazing: A Review of Half American by Matthew F. Delmont and an Exploration of Executive Action During World War II and its Impact on Black Soldiers
African Descendants During Legal Apartheid/ Jim Crow (1865 to 1963) (Searchable Database)
Hostile Shores: Racial Exclusion Laws and the West Coast
Brown and Red: Defending Jim Crow in Cold War America
Were it Not for Tulsa: How the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Influenced the Desegregation of the American Educational System
“A Solemn Promise Kept”: The 1919 Elaine Race Riot and the Broadening of Habeas Corpus 100 Years Later
Resignation in Protest: Judge William Hastie's Uncompromising Battle Against Discriminatory Treatment of Blacks in the Armed Forces
Policing Jim Crow America: Enforcers' Agency and Structural Transformations
Connections Between Black Wall Street and Oklahoma's All-black Towns
Black Lawyers and Civil Rights: The NAACP's Legal Campaign Against Segregation
Racial Capitalism and Race Massacres: Tulsa's Black Wall Street and Elaine's Sharecroppers
Black Progressivism and the Progressive Court (1896–1916)
Sororities as Confederate Monuments
Driving While Black: The Blackest Land, The Whitest People (Video)
Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World (1920)
Our Rightful Place in the Sun: Marcus Garvey and the 1920 Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
Brown v. Board: Revisited
Reframing Black Southerners' Experiences in the Courts, 1865-1950
Cumming v. Board of Education of Richmond County (1899)
Apartheid and Jim Crow: Drawing Lessons from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
Remains of Black People Forced Into Labor After Slavery Are Discovered in Texas Image
Strange Fruit at the United Nations
The Tyranny of the Minority: Jim Crow and the Counter-MajoritarianDifficulty
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) (Separate but Equal)
Negro Peonage and the Thirteenth Amendment (1904)
Making Blacks into Foreigners
The Legal Status of the Southern Negro in 1955
Martin Luther King's Constitution
The Pre-Affirmative Action Era
Forgotten Negro Protest Movement and EO 9981
Post-civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration
Examples of Jim Crow Laws
Black Lives Matter – A Discussion with Two Civil Rights Attorneys: Walter Riley and Dewitt M. Lacy
The Ghosts of 1964: Race, Reagan, and the Neo-conservative Backlash to the Civil Rights Movement
Subsidizing Segregation
Civil Rights for the Twenty-first Century: Lessons from Justice Thurgood Marshall's Race-transcending Jurisprudence
Mr. Justice Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993: A Bio-bibliographic Research Guide
Race, Law, and Inequality, 50 Years after the Civil Rights Era
Building Toward Major Policy Change: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1941-1950
The Emergence of a Segregated World and the Road to Sweatt
Black Lives Matter Is a Human Rights Issue
Dying While Black: Intergenerational Impact of Racism and Segregation (Video)
No Justice, No Peace: The Need for a State Version of § 1983 in Response to the Movement for Black Lives
(Re)framing Race in Civil Rights Lawyering, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Penguin Press, 2019
Law and Anti-blackness
Letting the Cat out of the Bag: How Lack of Access to Animal Companionship and Husbandry Fosters Inequality for Black Americans
Systemic Racism: Patterns of Black Disadvantage and White Advantage Linked to Slavery
A Reflection about Black Progress: Not Better or Worst - Just Different
#BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
On Jussie Smollet and Racial Stress
Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective
Toward a Touchstone Theory of Anti-racism: Sex Discrimination Law Meets #Livingwhileblack
The Battle of Brandy Creek: How One Black Community Fought Annexation, Tax Revaluation, and Displacement
Movement Lawyering in Moments of Crisis: Some Things White Allies (And Others) Can do
The Thirteenth Amendment as Basis for Racial Truth & Reconciliation
The Thirteenth Amendment, Interest Convergence, and the Badges and Incidents of Slavery
Defining the Badges and Incidents of Slavery
Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Badges and Incidents of Slavery
Race, Rights, and the Thirteenth Amendment: Defining the Badges and Incidents of Slavery
African American HistoryMakers and 9/11
White Saviors
Confederate Monuments as Badges of Slavery
Seeking Sankofa: Any Hope for a “Post-Racial” Future Resides in Facing Our Racial
Does the #ADOS & #MAGA Convergence Signal Imminent Economic Collapse?
Urban Education Policy as the Dispossession, Containment, Dehumanization, and Disenfranchisement of Black Peoples
#BLACKLIVESMATTER Kitchen Talk
RADTALKS: What Could Be Possible If the Law Really Stood for Blacklives?
Derrick Bell's Dilemma: The Interest Convergence Principle and Racial Realism
Critical Black Protectionism, Blacklivesmatter, and Social Media: Building a Bridge to Social Justice
The Early History of the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Implications Thereof
How the Thirteenth Amendment's Promise of Abolition Holds Protections Against the Modern Debtors' Prisons
White Supremacy, Anti-blackness and the Afterlife of Slavery in the Law
The Thirteenth Amendment and Interest Convergence
"Color Struck": Intragroup and Cross-racial Color Discrimination
Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
Modern Narratives About Race and Slavery: Post-Racialism, Race-Consciousness, and Reparations
Recent Developments in Desegregation Cases
 Time to Fix Civil Rights Act of 1964
Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation
Echoes of the Zong: Confronting Legal Realism in the Arguments for Reparations from the Atlantic Slave Trade and Modern-day Human Trafficking
Making Amends: Localizing and Implementing Housing Reparation Programs for African Americans Affected by Discriminatory Housing Policies
Black Lives Matter and the Push for Colonial-era Cultural Heritage Restitution
Municipal Fair Housing Act Litigation and Reparations
Forty Acres and a Mule: America's Bill for Reparations Is Long past Overdue
Reparations and Restorative Justice: A Path to Racial Healing
Understanding the Legal Difference Between Equitable and Compensatory Reparations
Reparations Can Mitigate Wealth Inequity
France and Haiti: A Debt of Dishonor
Reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
Remedying the Health Implications of Structural Racism Through Reparations
America to Me--A Public Nuisance Reparations Framework Through the Lens of the Tulsa Massacre
Reparations, Restitution, and Transitional Justice: American Chattel Slavery & its Aftermath, A Moral Debate Whose Time Has Come
Reparations for a Public Nuisance? The Effort to Compensate Survivors, Victims, and Descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre One Hundred Years Later
Reparations for Racial Wealth Disparities as Remedy for Social Contract Breach
Reparations & H.R. 40: Call to Action for Congress
Criminalized Students, Reparations, and the Limits of Prospective Reform
Regulatory Reparations
The Wilmington Massacre and Coup of 1898 and the Search for Restorative Justice
Toward a Just Future: Anticipating and Overcoming a Sustained Resistance to Reparations
Critique of the Black Commons as Reparations
Reparations and the Right to Return
The Unmaking of “Black Bill Gates”: How the U.s. Patent System Failed African-American Inventors
Reparations for Police Violence
The Reparations Work Underway in Evanston, Il: Promoting an Affirmative and Accountable Government
3/5ths to 1/10th, How to Make Black America Whole: Exploring Congressional Act H.R.40 -- Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade's African Elephant in the International Courtroom: West Africa's Debt of Reparations to the Descendants of the Black Diaspora
When Righteousness Fails: The New Incentive for Reparations for Slavery and its Continuing Aftermath in the United States
The Science of Reparations: A Balanced Approach
Rights, Race, Redistribution, and Responsibility: A Case Study of the United States, South Africa, Canada and Palestine
Event (Nov20): Breaking the Chain of Oppression: Comprehensive Reparations
The Coronavirus Pandemic And the Demand for Reparations
An Uphill Battle for Reparationists: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Slavery Reparations Rhetoric
Towards a More Perfect Union: An Approach to Rectifying White-Black Racial Inequality in American Life
Black Reparations for Twentieth Century Federal Housing Discrimination: The Construction of White Wealth and the Effects of Denied Black Homeownership
The U.S. Reparations Debate: Where Do We Go from Here?
Recognition of Responsibility and Reparation for Massive and Flagrant Violations of Human Rights
Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Racism: Why Reparations Are in Order for African Americans
Historic and Modern Social Movements for Reparations: The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'cobra) and its Antecedents
The Case for a Reparations Law School Clinic
National Education Association (NEA) Votes to Support Reparation for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States
Educational Inequality and the Science of Diversity in Grutter: A Lesson for the Reparations Debate in the Age of Obama
HR 40 Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
2019 New York Assembly Bill 3080 Commission on Reparations Remedies
Illinois House Resolution 45, Study Reparations for Slavery (2017)
Vermont Bill Apology and Proposal for Reparations
Reparations Lawsuit (2004) Bob Brown v. John Paul II, et. al.
The Rhetoric of Race, Redemption, and Will Contests: Inheritance as Reparations in John Grisham's Sycamore Row
Racial Justice Demands Truth & Reconciliation
American Reparations Theory and Practice at the Crossroads
Racial Reparations: Japanese American Redress and African American Claims
A No-excuse Approach to Transitional Justice: Reparations as Tools of Extraordinary Justice
Correcting the Harms of Slavery: Collective Liability, the Limited Prospects of Success for a Class Action Suit for Slavery Reparations, and the Reconceptualization of White Racial Identity
Responsibility for Historical Injustices: Reconceiving the Case for Reparations
Re-assembling Osiris: Rule 23, the Black Farmers Case, and Reparations
Reparations Theory and Practice Then and Now: Mau Mau Redress Litigation and the British High Court
A Consideration of Black Life under American Law from 1619 to 1972 and a Challenge to Prevailing Notions of Legally Based Reparations
Extraordinary Justice: Reparations for Historic Abuses
A "Legacy Preference" for Descendants of Slaves: Why Georgetown's Approach to Admissions Is Misguided
This Means War: A Case for Just Reparations under the Doctrine of Inalienability
Declaration of the International Conference on Reparations
Speaking Truth to Power: An Analysis of American Truth-telling Efforts Vis-À-vis the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Reparation and DAEUS (Selected Law Review Articles)
The Case For Black Reparations (Book Review)
Re-assembling Osiris: Rule 23, the Black Farmers Case, and Reparations
The Trans-atlantic Slave Trade: A Legacy Establishing a Case for International Reparations
Shocking List of 10 Companies that Profited from the Slave Trade
MANY BILLIONS GONE: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE CASE FOR BLACK REPARATIONS?
Dominant Perspectives on Reparations
The Case for Black Reparations
Slavery, Segregation and Reparations
Political Autonomy as a Form of Reparations
Transforming Public Perceptions of Reparations
The Case for Black Reparations Redux
Reparation Debate Beyond 1865
White America and Reparations
Black America and Reparations
New Avenues for Slavery Reparations
Legal Issues and Reparations
Uncivil Wars and Reparation
The Race-Skewed Notion of Victimhood
Failure to Enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Taking Conservatives Seriously
The Cultural War over Reparations for Slavery
The Utility and Disadvantages of Reparations
JP Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank and Slavery
The Case Against Black Reparations
The Mass Tort Analogy and African American Reparations
Slavery and Tort Law
Unjust Enrichment and Reparations for Slavery
Reparations as Redistribution
The Role of the Federal Government in Slavery and Jim Crow
Slavery, Reproductive Abuse, and Reparations
Statutes of Limitations and Reparations
Takings Clause Solution to Reparations
Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss
Second Consolidated and Amended Complaint and Jury Demand
Motion for Reconsideration of Dismissal Order
First Consolidated and Amended Complaint and Jury Demand
Response of Defendants-Appellees to Appellate Brief
Opinion and Order: Appeal
Opinion and Order: Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss
Opinion and Order: Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss
Opinion and Order: Plaintiffs' Motion to Recuse
Opinion and Order: Plaintiffs' Motion to Appoint a Mediator
Opinion and Order: Plaintiffs' Motion to Preserve Evidence: (July 15, 2003)
Opinion and Order: Motion to Transfer
Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Enlargement of Time to Respond
Memorandum in Support of Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss
Reply in Support of Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss
Reply Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants
Reply in Support of Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' Second Consolidated and Amended Complaint
Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants
Brief of Defendants-Appellees
A Critical Legal Rhetoric Approach to In Re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation
A Critical Legal Rhetoric Approach to In Re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation

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Transatlantic Slave Trade 2

Slavery 49

Civil War and Reconstruction 8

Segregation (Jim Crow) 33

Civil Rights Era 8

Racial Reentrenchment and Neoslavery 38

Reparations 117

 

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