Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E19

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“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” – Chinua Achebe

Tonight hear the voices of the often unheard from behind the walls of the nation’s prison plantations in the USA. Abolition today is a bi-weekly online radio program with specific focus on modern slavery as it is practiced through the 13th amendment of the US constitution and by private for-profit prisons worldwide.