Freeman's Challenge
The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
- 2024 INDIES Winner
- Silver, History (Adult Nonfiction)
An explosive, moving story about the entangled origins of prison for profit and anti-Black racism. In "Freeman’s Challenge", Robin Bernstein tells the story of an Afro-Native teenager named William Freeman who was convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit and sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s prison.
