Viva Quest

Christine Alvarez

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.

Episodes

  1. 06/26/2020

    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 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://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://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-prison-labor/ 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.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.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html 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/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.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article29322202.html

  2. 06/19/2020

    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/

About

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.