positive abolition in connection to the work of david e. dubois -- w.e.b. dubois and in his work davis draws out how dubois again advised the failure of reconstruction to end slavery. in fact people were forced to labor on the same plantations where they labored as in part because of the criminal legal system that penalize the conduct of free black people and confined them to chain gangs. these ideas and popularized by jim crow. dubois were guards these developments as if it is a failure of the positive abolition that failure of reconstruction which davis and dorothy gilmore argue remain the work of abolitionist today and for davis and gilmore whose work