A life more terrible: the ladies of 12 Years a servant

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The usa was at the midst of a war that is civil years back and, while Abraham Lincoln had simply released the emancipation proclamation, it might nevertheless be another 18 months until freedom finally arrived for the four million African People in the us held in bondage in the usa.

The status of those individuals as “non-human” had been therefore ingrained when you look at the US psyche that perhaps the rape of a enslaved girl could simply be taken to court if it absolutely was regarded as being a “trespass” on some body else’s home.