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.
Legalized Slavery in Modern United States? A quick look on the 13th amendment and prison labor.
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 (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://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://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://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/Print-Edition/upload/Goodwin-final.pdf)
https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-prison-labor/ (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.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.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.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.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/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html)
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/ (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/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://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.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
19 Jun 2020
How was the church involved in the Reconstruction Era? A quick glimpse into the history of the Reconstruction Era and churches in the United Sates.
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/
11 Jun 2020
Racism in Church? A Glimpse into the History of the Antebellum (Slavery) Era and Churches in the United States
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/
3 Jun 2020
Racism in the Church? Introduction to the History of Racism and Churches In the United States
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
28 May 2020
Little Women - Chapter 21
Today I will be reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. There will be a question at the end of the episode.
20 May 2020
Little Women - Chapter 20
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.
18 May 2020
Little Women Chapter 19
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.
13 May 2020
Reading of Little Women - Chapter 18
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.
11 May 2020
Reading of Little Women - Chapter 17
This episode is a reading and commentary of Chapter 17 of Little Women.
6 May 2020
Reading of Little Women - Chapter 16
This episode is a reading of Chapter 16 of Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott. There is also brief commentary at the end.
4 May 2020
The Reading of Little Women - Chapter 15, Part 2
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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