White America’s Legal, Moral, and Economic Institutions of Rape

White America’s Legal, Moral, and Economic Institutions of Rape

Consider the following:
√ Kentucky 1802 Code: death penalty for rape of a white woman by a slave and term of years for rape by a white man
√ Virginia Code of 1819 and 1823 Law: death penalty for rape or attempted rape of a white woman by a slave, Black, or mulatto and term of I0 to 21 years for rape by a white man
√ Missouri 1825…

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