From Slavery to Mass Incarceration with Dr. Byron Price

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It's true: slavery never ended. It's a dehumanizing system that continues to enslave, exploit, and devalue Black people in one particular institution: prisons. Today, Dr. Byron Price - author of such work as "Merchandizing Prisoners" and "Prison Privatization" - takes us on a journey from slavery to convict leasing to the modern-day policing industry as we know it, to show the clear connection between slavery and prisons, and to offer insight into how our community can begin to fight against mass incarceration. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people! PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference. Thanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes Tareq Alani, Abeni Jones, Patrick Sanders, Tasha Taylor, William Anderson, Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, Shonda Buchanan, Briona Lamback, Akua Tay, Leslie Taylor-Grover, and Darren Wallace. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Ivana Tucker, who also edits the podcast. Black History Year’s Executive Producer is Julian Walker. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The people always talk about black folks lazy, they don't want to work well, have you ever
0:06.9	thought about black folks just tired of working for free or working for nothing?
0:10.7	You know, you stole wages from them when they were slaves, you stole them on the share
0:15.0	cropping system.
0:16.3	So that's how the prison industries came about.
0:19.7	Whatever industry there was, they used slave labor.
0:25.6	Almost 160 years ago, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, declaring the end of slavery,
0:36.1	and that enslaved persons in the Confederacy, quote, shall be then then sworeward and forever
0:43.0	free, quote.
0:47.5	If American history has taught us anything, it's taught us that it's full of lies.
0:52.6	Almost 160 years after that document was signed, slavery persists in a new, depraved system,
1:01.3	one that guarantees black people would never truly be free as long as it's around.
1:07.3	I'm Jay from Push Black, and today on Black History Year, we're talking about the origins
1:11.9	of prison and how it's used as a form of modern-day slavery.
1:18.5	To break down the history of this phenomenon, we have Dr. Byron Price joining us.
1:24.2	Dr. Price is a professor of public policy and administration at Medgar Evers College.
1:30.3	For decades, his scholarship and research has explored the prison pipeline and prison
1:36.0	privatization, a subject on which he's written several books, including merchandising
1:41.4	prisoners and prison privatization, the many facets of a controversial industry.
1:49.1	Slavery never ended, and then at simplest terms, Dr. Price will explain how that is and
1:55.6	offer a solution that our community can begin to apply right away.
2:01.6	Let's get into it.
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