Slavery linked the privilege of whites to the subordination of Blacks through a legal regime that attempted the conversion of Blacks into objects of property. Similarly, the settlement and seizure of Native American land supported white privilege through a system of property rights in land in which the "race" of the Native Americans rendered their first possession rights invisible and justified conquest.
-Whiteness As Property by Cheryl I. Harris Harvard Law Review
Volume 106 June 1993 Number 8 pg.1721
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