Additional Research & Source Materials

Barry, Dan. The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland, Harper, 2016. [Book-length treatment of New York Times article about a group of intellectually disabled men enslaved at a turkey-processing plant in Iowa. They were liberated in 2009.]

Free The Slaves. https://www.freetheslaves.net/. Accessed 24 Jan 2019. [Nonprofit organization with research on present-day slavery and resources for anti-slavery activism.]

Hardy, Michael. “Blood and Sugar,” Texas Monthly, January 2017, https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/sugar-land-slave-convict-labor-history/. Accessed 24 Jan 2019. [Article about use of convict labor on sugar plantations in violation of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.]

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz, Simon & Schuster, 1993. [Memoir of survival in a Nazi concentration camp. See especially descriptions of forced labor in chapter 6, “The Work.”]

Oppel, Richard A. and Jugal K. Patel. “One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases,” New York Times, 31 Jan 2019, nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/31/us/public-defender-case-loads.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share. Accessed 1 Feb 2019. [Article about how overloaded public defenders are, leading to a culture where “plea bargaining” rather than going to trial, is the norm.]

Shaer, Matthew. “How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor,” New York Times, 8 Jan 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/magazine/cities-fine-poor-jail.html. Accessed 27 Jan 2019. [In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay — sometimes for months at a time.]

Staples, Brent. “A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land,” New York Times, 27 Oct 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/sugar-land-texas-graves-slavery.html. Accessed 24 Jan 2019. [Another article about use of convict labor on sugar plantations in violation of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.]