Are There Any Need for These Laws?

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Eme: There wouldn't have been any need for these laws if people weren't actuallya, having a tendency to joined together. The argument isthat those things were designed to lead to what suzanne called a multi class coalition of white people,. That's right. And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class and are respected and treated as equals.

Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the construction of Whiteness as we know it today. By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Key sources for this episode:

The Racial Equity Institute

Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning

Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People