A Conversation with conversation with Robin Bernstein, author, Freeman’s Challenge, The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit

Join Michael in his conversation with Robin Bernstein about her new book, Freeman’s Challenge, The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, which tells a gripping story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prisons for profit in Auburn, NY decades before the Civil War.

Robin Bernstein is a cultural historian who specializes in U.S. racial formation from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. Her previous book is titled Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. 

Robin Bernstein

https://x.com/RobinMBernstein

Freeman's Challenge

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo213968137.html