# Robin Bernstein
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Robin Stein Bernstein (born 1953) is a Florida businesswoman who served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 2018 to 2021.
== Education ==
Bernstein was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey and graduated from Bridgeton High School in 1972. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Language Area Studies from the American University School of International Service in 1975.
What William Freeman's Act Meant (1846)
Part two of our conversation with Harvard's Robin Bernstein about William Freeman's act of murder and protest in the prison town of Auburn, NY.
Robin's new book is called Freeman's Challenge -- it's available now!
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How Carceral Slavery Began
When and where did the practice of forcing incarcerated people to work without wages begin? Robin Bernstein reveals that prison-based slavery in the U.S. originated not in the South but in Auburn, New York. The Auburn System, under which incarcerated workers were prohibited from talking and were pu…
Robin Bernstein
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Transforming Your Organization: The Role of the Nonprofit Board
A panel of administrators and executives in nonprofit organizations discuss the role of the nonprofit board in strengthening organizations, and strategies of organizational transformation through board and staff partnerships in strategic planning and changing the board's culture. Panelists include …
1,099 | Uncovering America's First For-Profit Prison: Robin Bernstein on Freeman’s Challenge
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Episode 219 – Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein
Dr. Bernstein is a cultural historian at Harvard, teaching US Racial Formation since the early 19th century. Her latest book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, delves into the history of America’s first prisons in New York built along capitalist ideals…
Robin Bernstein - Departments of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in be…
Freeman's Challenge: The Untold Story of America's First Prison-for-Profit - New York Black History 1840-1846
Uncover one of the most important untold stories in African American history: how a 15-year-old Black teenager in New York challenged America's first prison-for-profit system and exposed the origins of mass incarceration.
William Freeman's story reveals shocking truths about Black history that have…
Episode 86 — Robin Bernstein: Freeman's Challenge — The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit. Robin Bernstein is a cultural historian who specializes in race and racism from the nineteenth century to the present. She teaches at Harvard, where she is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of Afri…
William Freeman & The Birth of Profit Prisons With Dr. Robin Bernstein
American history, slavery, capitalism, and the origins of America’s prison-for-profit system collide in this powerful episode of the Unsolicited Perspectives Podcast. Bruce Anthony interviews Dr. Robin Bernstein about her book Freeman's Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison for…
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