Abolitionism


Are Prisons Obsolete?
The Last Runaway
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
The End of Policing
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Invention of Wings
Abolitionismus. Ein Reader
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneSelf-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
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Lucretia Mott
“ If our principles are right, why should we be cowards? ”
― Lucretia Mott

“ […] Under such auspices, in 1835, he went to Canaan Academy, at Canaan, New Hampshire, Rev. William Scales, principal; he was kindly received into the family of George Kimball, Esq. There he first met Miss Julia Williams, formerly a pupil of Miss Prudence Crandall, Canterbury, Connecticut, who was imprisoned for teaching colored girls; Miss Williams subsequently became his wife. Among the pupils at the Academy were his old schoolmates, Alexander Crummell and Thomas S. Sydney. They joyfully enter ...more ”
― James McCune Smith, A Memorial Discourse By Reverend Henry Highland Garnet

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