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Missouri v. Celia asserts Black women as slaveholder "property" for sexual exploitation.
Date: 1855
Reproductive health/reproductive rights
Sexual violence
Slavery
In this case, an enslaved Black woman is declared to be a person's "property" without the right to defend herself against a slaveholder's act of rape.
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