Leslie Alexander

Rutgers University
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From slavery to mass incarceration

From slavery to mass incarceration

This course examines the legacies and afterlives of slavery in mass incarceration and modern-day policing.

Would you rebel classroom activity

"Would you rebel?" classroom activity

This classroom exercise challenges students to consider all the costs and consequences that enslaved people faced when responding to their enslavement.

Enslavement and uprisings

Enslavement and uprisings

In the years before independence in the US there were over fifty documented conspiracies, rebellions, and plots by enslaved peoples in resistance to slavery. Unfortunately this history has been largely overlooked.