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How the legal system continues to treat once-enslaved people as property

June 16, 2023

When Michigan State University’s Justin Simard was conducting research for his dissertation, he came across a case predating the Civil War related to slavery that was cited as precedent in 2012.

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Judges still cite cases in which enslaved people are property

June 15, 2023

"The pervasive influence of the law of slavery on contemporary American law raises hard questions," says Justin Simard of the Citing Slavery Project.

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How the legal system continues to treat once-enslaved people as property

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