Session 4: From Convict Leasing to Mass Incarceration

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Session 1: One-Day Retreat: Community-Building & Self-Reflection
Session 2: Session 1: The Big Picture of Racial Injustice
Session 3: Session 2: The Middle Passage
Session 4: Session 3: Recovering the Voices of the Enslaved
Session 5: Session 4: From Convict Leasing to Mass Incarceration
Session 6: Session 5: Acknowledging Our History of Lynching
Session 7: Session 6: The Struggle for Equal Education
Session 8: Immersion Experience (to be determined by the group)
Session 9: Session 7: The True Theology of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Session 10: Session 8: Seeking Restoration (and Guest Speaker)

Discusses convict leasing, a system implemented during Reconstruction, and its remarkable resemblance to mass incarceration today.