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Christine Alvarez

Reading public domain books, reviewing books, and talking about life in general. This podcast coincides with my two YouTube channels Viva Quest and Story Quest. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/viva-quest/support

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This episode is a quick look into the 13th amendment and prison labor. The link to the 13th documentary is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8

Sources for this episode:

https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/13th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20on%20January,within%20the%20United%20States%2C%20or

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xiii/interps/137

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/Print-Edition/upload/Goodwin-final.pdf

https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-prison-labor/

https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NYULawReview-94-6-Pope.pdf

https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/chain-gangs/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chain-gangs

https://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/856#:~:text=The%20chain%20gang%20was%20abolished,end%20of%20the%20Civil%20War.&text=Just%20a%20few%20decades%20later,systems%20of%20prison%20labor%20exploitation.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States#Mississippi_for-profit_prison_labor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20Bureau,%2C%20and%20Hispanic%20males%2024%25.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html

https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article29322202.html


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This is episode three in a series of how churches in the United States was and still is complicit in the SIN of racism. Warning this episode, violence will be discussed.

Sources for this episode:

https://www.howard.edu/library/reference/guides/reconstructionera/

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/introduction.html

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section2/section2_church.html#:~:text=The%20creation%20of%20autonomous%20black,of%20blacks'%20conception%20of%20freedom.&text=With%20emancipation%2C%20blacks%20withdrew%20from,land%20and%20erect%20church%20buildings.

https://flamingnet.com/reconstruction.php

https://www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/forum-the-future-of-reconstruction-studies/reconstructing-religion/

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american-odyssey/reconstruction.html

http://jsr.fsu.edu/sparks.htm

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reconstruction-schools-and-education-during-reconstruction/

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/education-religion-black-community-reconstruction/

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/reconstruction.htm

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/the-south-after-reconstruction/

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section2/section2_church.html

https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/print/journey3.html

https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan

https://www.njstatelib.org/research_library/new_jersey_resources/highlights/african_american_history_curriculum/unit_7_reconstruction_era/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/lynchings-report-reconstruction-era-black-americans

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-deadliest-massacre-reconstruction-era-louisiana-180970420/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-lynching-america/

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/black-church-burning/


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This is episode two in a series of how churches in the United States was and still is complicit in the SIN of racism.  Below is the references for today's episode: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american-odyssey/free-blacks-in-the-antebellum-period.html https://www.ushistory.org/us/27d.asp https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-62/black-christianity-before-civil-war-christian-history.html http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/aareligionb.htm https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history-timeline/ https://pluralism.org/african-american-christianity https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/godinamerica-black-church/ https://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/interviews/cynthia-lyerly.html http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/christn/chesjgbat.html https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/2/18/21134644/black-history-month-2020-myths https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2957.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention#:~:text=The%20word%20Southern%20in%20Southern,abolition%20and%20black%20civil%20rights. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40579712?seq=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/us/southern-baptist-slavery.html https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-33/why-christians-supported-slavery.html https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/baptist-confederate-flags/487175/


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This is a brief introduction in a series of how churches in the United States was and still is complicit in the SIN of racism.  Below is the references for today's episode: https://pluralism.org/first-encounters-native-americans-and-christians https://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2015-01/george-whitefield-s-troubled-relationship-race-and-slavery https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/jonathan-edwards https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/jonathan-edwards-support-slavery-lament/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears https://daily.jstor.org/slavery-church/ https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/religion/history.html https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-38/george-whitefield-did-you-know.html


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Today I will be reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. There will be a question at the end of the episode.


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In today's episode I will be reading chapter 20 of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. There is a question of the day at the end.


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In today's episode I will be reading chapter 19 of Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott.  There is a question of the day at the end and you can send me a message and I may put your response in a future episode.


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In this episode I will be reading Chapter 18 of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.  There is a question at the end of this episode.


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This episode is a reading and commentary of Chapter 17 of Little Women.


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This episode is a reading of Chapter 16 of Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott.  There is also brief commentary at the end.


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Welcome to Viva Quest!  Today's podcast is a reading of the second half of chapter 15 of Louis May Alcott's Little Women.  I hope you enjoy this episode. 


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