Lisa Sharon Harper Convict leasing Peonage caught millions of Black boys and men in the web of convict leasing by leveraging the freight-sized loophole in the Thirteenth Amendment, allowing enslavement in the case of imprisonment.…
Lisa Sharon Harper Pure white housing space In her 2020 masterpiece, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson explains limiting employment opportunities for all people of color to domestic service or farm work. Wilkerson adds that…
Lisa Sharon Harper American “Justice” by Lisa Sharon Harper https://lisasharonharper.substack.com/p/american-justice?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
Lisa Sharon Harper Repentance will require people of European descent to face this truth When the image of God was crushed, broken, twisted, distorted, covered, or erased, the ancient Hebrews originally hearing this text would have understood these acts against humanity to be acts…
Lisa Sharon Harper South Carolina slave laws South Carolina’s layered slave trades grew in complexity. The multiplying African population increased the terror of White settlers, who codified their fear into law through new race codes in 1740:…
Lisa Sharon Harper The Native American slave trade But Black oblivion is not the only kind of oblivion within American colonial slavocracy. Mystery compounds mystery with the southeastern states’ prolific investment in the Native American slave trade. Long…
Lisa Sharon Harper Black deaths were not recorded, except as property loss Sin is passed down from generation to generation. As it goes, it snowballs. At some point, within five generations of Ballards in Camden, South Carolina, someone bought or was gifted…
