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contents a nonviolent rape A Nonviolent Rape 3 How an Uneventful Day and Place Became Eventful 25 BeFore and aFter a nonviolent rape How I Left Harlem 31 How I Had Ended Up in Harlem 36 How I Lost the Feeling of Being at Home 48 How and Why I Started a Lawsuit Against My Landlord 56 the criminal procedure and the civil lawsuit How the Assailant Was Caught 71 “Domestophobia” and PrisonLand 82 How the Assailant Was Convicted for Two Rapes 98 The Civil Lawsuit for Improper Security 111 deFeated By new york One of New York’s “Ten Worst Landlords” Faces Federal Charges 125 Defeated by New York, or, Why I Came to New York 130 Afterword 141 Acknowledgments 143 ...

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