Margaret A. Burnham

“Black capture and submission created an unambiguous racial gulf in criminal law that persisted for fully a century after slavery was officially over. Inasmuch as reading kidnapping as “lawful” was the legal bedrock of the African slave trade, it was perchance not so coincidental that it was still a racial marker in the second half of the twentieth century.”
― Margaret A. Burnham, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners