Sidney Davis’s Reviews > The Invention of the White Race > Status Update

If, from the beginning of the eighteenth century in Anglo-America, the term "negro" meant slave, except when explicitly modified by the word "free," so, under English (Anglo-Norman) thirteenth-century law, the term "hibernicus," Latin for "Irishman," was the legal term for "unfree." If under Anglo-American slavery , "the rape of a female slave was not a crime, but a mere trespass on the master's property,