What are the “lived and institutional legacies of slavery”?

Lived legacies means effects experienced by actual people in their lives.

For example:

racial attitudes, family disruption, economic deprivation, social subordination.

Institutional legacies means effects embedded in institutions or institutional practices.

For example:

legal rules, judicial practices, labor arrangements, property relationships, and political institutions shaped by slavery's history.

Perrone's argument is particularly relevant because she says that judges sometimes treated slavery as merely a collection of legal disabilities that could simply be removed, while overlooking slavery as a lived institution whose effects persisted

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