Angela Davis is a legendary speaker, known for the clarity and subtlety of her thought and the compelling passion of her delivery. This speech was delivered at a conference organized for the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1808, to talk about the meaning of freedom:-What has that freedom meant for people of African descent? -Was that freedom meant for the black world? -And what has been the relationship to communities that are differently racialized but nonetheless suffer under these cycles of oppression?"The structural racism of the prison. What is the relationship between the structural racism of slavery and the racism that is inscribed in the very processes that create trajectories that lead inevitably toward incarceration?" -Angela Davis