Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block

Gives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to transform how we think about mass incarceration

For readers of Michelle Alexander, Anglea Y. Davis, and Clint Smith

A Ms. Magazine "Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026" Pick

Historian Talitha L. LeFlouria centers Black women at the core of a fresh argument: that the system of mass incarceration was established as protection for the institution of slavery ...