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!

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