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Review title: A compelling study combining law and literature
Product review: This book is an exciting study that brings together legal and linguistic conceptions of what it meant for people to be "property" under U.S. chattel slavery, and the impact of these conceptions on post-slavery legislation of race relations. The reason I gave it four stars instead of five is that the question of the rape of slave women and the property in resultant children is not addressed. The author discusses what it might conceivably mean to own a person's labor power, but not what it also means to own her reproductive capacity and the children that resulted, on the one hand, from relations between blacks, and, on the other, relations between white slaveholders and enslaved women. The study is broad-ranging and provocative, but it would be even stronger if gender were considered somewhere other than in the (admittedly fascinating) discussion of the way certain issues play out in very early films.
