Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionists Freedom Song Peterson Marlon
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionists Freedom Song Peterson Marlon From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration--and a call to break free…
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Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionists Freedom Song Peterson Marlon
From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration--and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. But in the aftermath of immense trauma, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two murders. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and devout child, the specter of the American dream opening up before him.
He served ten long years in prison. At nineteen, Peterson was charged and later convicted. While incarcerated, Peterson immersed himself in anti-violence activism, education, and prison abolition work.In Bird Uncaged, Peterson challenges the typical "redemption" narrative and our assumptions about justice.
With vulnerability and insight, he uncovers the