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The Citing Slavery Project
@CitingSlavery
The official twitter of the Citing Slavery Project. The Project provides a database of slave cases and the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent.
Mar 21, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
For Women’s History Month, consider the ways in which enslaved women & girls were disproportionately harmed by their enslavers and the U.S. legal system, and how this legacy continues in our legal system today. 1/11 Thread: Women’s History Month & The Legacy of Slavery. ⚠️: slavery and physical & sexual abuse.

Slavery disproportionately harmed enslaved women and girls by subjecting them to higher rates of excessive physical and sexual abuse. The U.S. court system directly participated in upholding slavery by carrying out auctions 2/11