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25 lis 2019 · After 1819, only the state of Louisiana habitually punished enslaved criminals with prolonged sentences in the penitentiary, usually for life. Virginia courts did not sentence enslaved people ...
5 paź 2023 · Virginia's prison population has racial disparities, according to a new report. Black people in Virginia are incarcerated at a rate that is four times the rate for white people.
The civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s was one phase in the longer black freedom struggle that began when the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619—and continues today.
The year 1865 should be as notable to criminologists as is the year 1970. While it marked the end of the Civil War and the passage of the 13 th Amendment, it also triggered the nation’s first prison boom when the number of black Americans arrested and incarcerated surged.
13 paź 2021 · In 12 states, more than half the prison population is Black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
This set of lesson plans have been designed in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of History and Culture based on their 2019-2020 ground-breaking exhibit, Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality. These lessons explore four different time periods within the 400-year timeline covered in Determined: 1775-1865: Slavery at High Tide ...
Drawing on key insights from new histories in the field of American carceral studies, we trace the multifaceted ways in which policymakers and officials at all levels of government have used criminal law, policing, and imprisonment as proxies for exerting social control in predominantly black communities from the colonial era to the present.
