Ownership of Persons with Disabilities in the United States

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How? Guardianship.

In the mid 19th century, the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery. Child labor was legal until the late 1930s. The 1960s ended the accepted practice of women sharing their husband’s or father’s identity. And today — in the United States, guardians constructively own their “wards” — people declared…