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Stolen Lives: Redress for Slavery’s and Jim Crow’s Ongoing Theft of Lifespan

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2024, 10 (2) 88-112; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.2.04
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
aAssociate professor in the Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States
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Stolen Lives: Redress for Slavery’s and Jim Crow’s Ongoing Theft of Lifespan
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Stolen Lives: Redress for Slavery’s and Jim Crow’s Ongoing Theft of Lifespan
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jun 2024, 10 (2) 88-112; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.2.04

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Stolen Lives: Redress for Slavery’s and Jim Crow’s Ongoing Theft of Lifespan
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jun 2024, 10 (2) 88-112; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.2.04
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    • CAN THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY LIFESPAN COST OF SLAVERY AND JIM CROW BE QUANTIFIED?
    • WHAT AVENUES COULD REDRESS STOLEN TIME SPECIFICALLY?
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