This is the seventh episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 7 are:

• Ch. 7: “Looking Forward” esp. 182-90, 212-27, 235

Study Questions for Episode 7 are:

• What is abolition-democracy?
• What is industrial autocracy?
• How do the two relate?

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

Based in Philadelphia, the Du Bois Movement School provides revolutionary abolitionist, internationalist, intersectional, and participatory political education to a new generation of aspiring organizers and leaders. We believe everyone is an intellectual, and that there can be no abolition of carceral institutions without a broad process of social reconstruction. We study the world to change it!

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent book publisher and political education institution based in Chicago. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find radical books, virtual events, podcasts, and other political education resources, including the other seasons of Abolition School Radio.

This is the eighth episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 8 are:

• Ch. 8: A Poor White esp. 237-244, bottom 251-254, 259, bottom 319-322.
• Ch. 9: “The Price of Disaster” esp. 325-330, 336, 345-347, 352-354, 357-359, 378-379

Study Questions for Episode 8 are:

• Why did it matter that Johnson was “a poor white,” and what did it mean to say that he was transformed?
• What was the price of disaster? Why did America refuse to pay? Why does Du Bois say the country still suffers from this refusal.

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

Based in Philadelphia, the Du Bois Movement School provides revolutionary abolitionist, internationalist, intersectional, and participatory political education to a new generation of aspiring organizers and leaders. We believe everyone is an intellectual, and that there can be no abolition of carceral institutions without a broad process of social reconstruction. We study the world to change it!

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent book publisher and political education institution based in Chicago. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find radical books, virtual events, podcasts, and other political education resources, including the other seasons of Abolition School Radio.

This is the ninth episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 9 are:

• Ch. 10: “The Black Proletariat in South Carolina” esp. 381-384, 390-391, 396-401, 426-429

Study Questions for Episode 9 are:

• Du Bois nearly called this chapter “the dictatorship of the black proletariat.” Why was he tempted to do so, and why did he decide not to?
• Who was Reconstruction for?

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

Based in Philadelphia, the Du Bois Movement School provides revolutionary abolitionist, internationalist, intersectional, and participatory political education to a new generation of aspiring organizers and leaders. We believe everyone is an intellectual, and that there can be no abolition of carceral institutions without a broad process of social reconstruction. We study the world to change it!

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent book publisher and political education institution based in Chicago. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find radical books, virtual events, podcasts, and other political education resources, including the other seasons of Abolition School Radio.

This is the tenth episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 10 are:

• Chs. 11-13: Mississippi and Louisiana; Alabama, Georgia, and Florida; Border and Frontier.
• Ch. 11: 431-35, bottom 442-43, 449-56, bottom 470-71, 482-4
• Ch. 12: 487-9, 494-5, 506, 511-3,
• Ch. 13: 526, 530-2, 535-8, 546-7, 551-3, 557, 561, 571, 575, 577

Study Questions for Episode 10 are:

• Look at the chapter titles and summaries: Why does Du Bois group states together for his analysis?
• What parameters matter to him?
• How did these differences play out in different dynamics?

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

Based in Philadelphia, the Du Bois Movement School provides revolutionary abolitionist, internationalist, intersectional, and participatory political education to a new generation of aspiring organizers and leaders. We believe everyone is an intellectual, and that there can be no abolition of carceral institutions without a broad process of social reconstruction. We study the world to change it!

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent book publisher and political education institution based in Chicago. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find radical books, virtual events, podcasts, and other political education resources, including the other seasons of Abolition School Radio.

This is the eleventh episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 11 are:

• Ch. 14: “The Counter-Revolution of Property” esp. 580-92, 595-6, 602, bottom 609-11, 618-26, 630-5

Study Questions for Episode 11 are:

• Why did Reconstruction die?
• Was it doomed from the start?

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

Based in Philadelphia, the Du Bois Movement School provides revolutionary abolitionist, internationalist, intersectional, and participatory political education to a new generation of aspiring organizers and leaders. We believe everyone is an intellectual, and that there can be no abolition of carceral institutions without a broad process of social reconstruction. We study the world to change it!

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent book publisher and political education institution based in Chicago. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find radical books, virtual events, podcasts, and other political education resources, including the other seasons of Abolition School Radio.

This is the final episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 12 are:

• Ch. 15: “Founding the Public School” skim most but focus on 637-41, 667
• Ch. 16: “Back Toward Slavery” esp. 670-4, 678-80, 692-709

Study Questions for Episode 12 are:

• Why does Du Bois write an entire chapter on public education?
• What does it mean to move “back toward slavery” and how does it complicate our understanding of history?

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

Based in Philadelphia, the Du Bois Movement School provides revolutionary abolitionist, internationalist, intersectional, and participatory political education to a new generation of aspiring organizers and leaders. We believe everyone is an intellectual, and that there can be no abolition of carceral institutions without a broad process of social reconstruction. We study the world to change it!

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent book publisher and political education institution based in Chicago. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find radical books, virtual events, podcasts, and other political education resources, including the other seasons of Abolition School Radio.