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Law Race and Slavery Chicago by aidan.sadai is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Celia, a young enslaved woman, was tried and executed in 1855 for killing her enslaver after years of sexual abuse, highlighting the failures of the American legal system that prioritized white supremacy over justice. Her case illustrates how the law in the antebellum South treated enslaved individuals as property, denying them legal protections and reinforcing systemic violence against Black women. Historians argue that Celia

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aidan.sadai

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