Criminalization of
Black Women's Sexuality (oct 10, 1864 – mar 10, 1873)
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"Across the country, Black women were arrested and incarcerated for purported prostitution offences at vastly disproportionate rates. Between 1864 and 1873, Black women were 3 percent of the population in Halifax but made up 40 percent of incarcerated women, and a large percentage of these were likely to be serving prostitution-related sentences (fingard 1984 in Backhouse 1985: 401)."
Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 46.
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