Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher explain how black Americans have been held down by the state and lifted up by the market.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today’s book: Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of AmericaRachel Ferguson: Twitter, website, Marcus Witcher: TwitterDiscussed and RecommendedThe Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy Financial Exclusion: How Competition Can Fix a Broken SystemThe Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America's PoorCompetition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaThe Black BoomArbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It