Slavery

What if slavery never really ended - it just changed its tools?

In this bold, interdisciplinary work, Dr. Frederic Jones - licensed clinical psychologist, ordained minister, and lifelong Southerner - argues that the master-slave relationship at the heart of American chattel slavery has been continuously reinvented, not abolished. Using Hegel's philosophical framework as a lens, Jones connects the dots between plantation economics and modern debt bondage, between Jim Crow and the suppression of Critical Race Theory, between the whip and the algorithm.

In these pages you will discover:
• How America's $1.7 trillion student loan crisis functions as a contemporary form of debt peonage
• Why the federal minimum wage has become a tool of permanent poverty rather than a path out of it
• How the Nordic free-education model built the world's most robust middle classes - and what America chose instead
• The deliberate strategy behind the vilification of "woke," DEI, and Critical Race Theory
• How anti-transgender and anti-immigrant politics divide the working class and serve the oligarchy
• Why the MAGA movement is best understood as the master's last stand against the slave's awakening consciousness
• Practical antidotes - from democratic reform to active mindfulness - that the progressive movement can deploy now
Part social history, part philosophical analysis, part clinical observation, and part personal memoir, Slavery: Its Legacy in Contemporary America is a clarifying, urgent, and ultimately hopeful examination of the deepest fault lines in American life.
For readers of Michelle Alexander, Isabel Wilkerson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Robert Reich.