Lyle Cherneff

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Remembering In re Turner: Popular Constitutionalism in the Reconstruction Era

Relying on insights from Critical Race Theory and feminist legal theory, this Note presents a historical account of the underexamined movement to end racialized apprenticeship laws in the post-slavery era. The Note argues that our shared constitutional memory has been artificially narrowed by underconsideration of freedpeople’s constitutional theories and claims.