Siobhan Barco: New Talking Legal History Interview with Robert Chase

The final episode in the yearlong Talking Legal History podcast series featuring UNC Press is online. In this timely episode, I interview Robert Chase about his book We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Our conversation underscores the important role academic presses play cultivating and disseminating the material Americans must draw from to solve today’s urgent issues. I’m eager to continue talking legal history with UNC Press authors in the years to come.

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2019-2020 UNC Press Podcast Series Episode List:

• Robert Chase, “We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2020), June 2020

• Maddalena Marinari, “Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965” (UNC Press, 2020), March 2020 

• Sophie White, “Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana” (UNC Press, 2019), February 2020

• Gregory Downs, “The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic” (UNC Press, 2019), January 2020

• Jane Hong, “Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion” (UNC Press, 2019), December 2019

• Kimberly M. Welch, “Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South” (UNC Press, 2018), November 2019

• William P. Hustwit, “Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education” (UNC Press, 2019), October 2019

• Candy Gunther Brown, “Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?” (UNC Press, 2019), September 2019

• Hendrik Hartog, “The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North” (UNC Press, 2018), August 2019

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This Talking Legal History Podcast Series was produced by Siobhan Barco with support from the Versatile Humanists at Duke program. Follow Siobhan on Twitter.