After completing the reading for Weeks 1-7, this essay project will enable you to gather and analyze sources on the creation and relevance of American institutions on enslavement, policing forced labor post-Civil War, and the convict leasing system to African Americans.
In this essay project, address the following questions:
- In what ways did the US Constitution define, legitimize, and sanction enslavement?
- Who are some of the individuals, institutions, organizations and/or historical events responsible for maintaining enslavement?
- The systemic and violent oppression of African Americans continued after the Civil War. What was the nature of that oppression and how was it similar to pre-Civil War forms of oppression?
In this assignment, you must demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the African American experience with the American justice system as a systematic, dynamic, oppressive, and unfolding process. Additionally, you must explain the impact of enslavement and the criminal justice system on African Americans and society.
provide MULTIPLE in-text citations of no less than 10 of the readings from WEEKS 1 THRU 7. You must properly cite all of your sources (class readings).