When Is the Time of Slavery - The History of Slavery in Contemporary Legal and Political Argument

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Copyright ? 2008 California Law Review, Inc. California Law Review, Inc. (CLR) is a California nonprofit corporation. CLR and the authors are solely responsible for the content of their publications. f John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law & History, USC Law School, agross@law.usc.edu. I would like to thank Martha Biondi, Pam Brandwein, Adrienne Davis, Ariela Dubler, Liz Emens, Robert Ferguson, Catherine Fisk, Eric Foner, Judith Jackson Fossett, Barry Friedman, Bob Gordon, Mark Graber, Cheryl Harris, Leslie Harris, Darren Hawkins, Dan Hulsebosch, Olati Johnson, Bernadette Meyler, Naomi Mezey, Julie Stone Peters, Rick Pildes, Richard Primus, Robert Pushaw, Annelise Riles, Dar?a Roithmayr, Mark Scarberry, Reuel Schiller, Norm Spaulding, Kenneth Starr, Nomi Stolzenberg, Riaz Tejani, Patricia Williams, and audiences at the USC Center for Law, History & Culture's Conference on New World Slavery: History, Memory, Redress; the Gloucester, UK Conference on Race and the Law, and the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting; law faculty workshops and legal history colloquia at Brigham Young University, Pepperdine, Columbia, and Cornell; as well as students in the Duke Law School Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination Seminar, for comments, criticism, and inspiration, and Shiri Klima for invaluable research assistance. 1. 375 F.Supp. 2d 721, 780 (N. Dist. 111. 2005). 2. Randall Robinson, The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks 225 (2000).