Slavery to Jim Crow to Mass Incarceration to Greed: In Pursuit of Freedom For All

Deborah G. Plant is author of the book Of Greed & Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom For All, addressing the direct linkage of slavery, the 13^th Amendment, mass incarceration, and the ways in which exclusive wealth and power undermines freedom for all of us. Deborah is editor of the New York Times bestseller Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston. Deborah is an African American and Africana Studies Independent Scholar, Writer, and Literary Critic, and she holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and traveled to Benin, in West Africa as a Fulbright-Hays fellow. Deborah Plant grew up in Louisiana, but now lives in Florida, and she joins us today via zoom from Florida.

Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Southern Baptist, non-affiliated, Tai Chi, Meditation

Featured music;

13^th Amendment - by Kash Doll and Ant Clemons