‘America just really needs to start being honest with itself’: How money and the slave trade shaped policing in the U.S.

‘America just really needs to start being honest with itself’: How money and the slave trade shaped policing in the U.S.

Over the past few weeks, the nation has been grappling with the history of systemic racism in our police system. But fewer may realize how far back this tradition goes.

To better understand this history, MarketWatch spoke with Luke Frederick, a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University who is studying the relationship between the slave trade, policing and incarceration during 17th and 18th…

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