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Documentary & Discussion: 13th Ava DuVernay’s film traces a line from the abolition of slavery to the present day, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Trayvon Martin, and convincingly makes the case that mass incarceration has replaced institutionalized slavery as a nationally supported way of subjugating and disenfranchising African-Americans.