Legal injustice
In the courts, a slave accused of any crime against a white person was “doomed”, according to U.S. History. A slave could not make any testimony against a white person in court. This meant that the slave’s side of the story could never be told in a court of law. Slaves were, thus, often absent in courts that also had all white juries. Per this code, slaves were punished for crimes they didn’t commit, for instance, a male slave who is accused of raping a white woman could face death or castration. Meanwhile, the rape of slave women was treated as a form of trespassing.
