Abolition Academy: 101 Introduction to Abolition


People tell us all the time: “I believe in this, I just don’t know enough to say anything.”

That’s what 101 is for.

Abolition 101 — Introduction to Abolition. Six lessons. Self-paced. $149.

You’ll walk the whole line: US slavery → slave codes and fugitivity → lynching → convict leasing → segregation → the New Jim Crow → policing and prisons. Then you’ll study the political and religious movements that rose to end each one — because abolition has never been a secular project, and the Black Church has been in it from the Underground Railroad forward.

This is not a doom course. It’s a literacy course. You leave able to explain to your congregation, your board, or your cousin at Thanksgiving why “tough on crime” keeps failing and what we build instead.

Ready to go further? 102 Ethics of Abolition and 103 Intersectionality & Abolition are open too, and the 100 Certificate Program in Abolition as Social Change has a waitlist.Come for the classes. Stay for the community. Enroll Today!


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