Brando Simeo Starkey

2 weeks ago | lithub.com | Brando Simeo Starkey

The Thirteenth Amendment reads briskly. Split into two sections, the first states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The second provides that “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”Article continues after advertisementCongress can only enact what the Constitution allows.

2 weeks ago | ballsandstrikes.org | Brando Simeo Starkey

Brando Simeo Starkey is the author of Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System, available June 3 wherever books are sold. The presence of Black people in America has produced a centuries-long fight between two hostile forces. On one side exists caste preservationists—those who fight to maintain the eternal primacy of the white population. Caste abolitionists sit opposite them.