The criminalization of Black humanity in America's Jim Crow south was based on some of the most flippant and unbelievable arguments of jurisprudence, so much so that it would leave most people today gape-mouthed. In the books in North Carolina for instance, was the transgression of looking at people wrongly - with the committal of...
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