Show Notes
Interview with University of Wisconsin Law School Assistant Professor of Law Ion Meyn on his recently published article, "White-on-Black Crime: Revisiting the Convict Leasing Narrative."
The article examines the years between 1880-1915 and the growing amount of evidence that suggests criminal convictions of Black men were the result of criminal conspiracies to traffic Black victims. This human trafficking inflated the historical Black crime rate but also obscured the criminal conduct of white beneficiaries.
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