News story on the trial of Sims McDaniels for enslaving and sexually assaulting Lizzie Dawkins. Dawkins was the child of McDaniels and Dora Dawkins, a Black woman whom McDaniels forced into slavery on his South Carolina plantation. Dawkins was accused of violating the Mann Act of 1910, also known as the "White Slave Act," which made sex trafficking a felony, only for his forced transport of Dawkins from Virginia to South Carolina. McDaniels was ultimately acquitted.
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