I was at this event talking for Black Maternal Health Week and this amazing law professor and author from Georgetown started talking about how raping Black women became a pillar of the American economy because it was a “free” way to expand your wealth during slavery and…
… how a lot of documents about how it affected the descendants of the rape victims are being erased and how 8-year olds were jumping off of roofs to commit suicide rather than be the living proof of their families pain and…
@Jani__Gee Thomas Jefferson, founding father, figured down to the penny how much a slave was worth, the future value and all.
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@Jani__Gee This book details the practice. Thomas Jefferson developed an actuary table to calculate the value on the “natural increase” of the people he enslaved.
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