The author is illiterate regarding 18th century English.
And she is a dumb ass.
It is not a woman it is a man who also said this:
Elie Mystal, a black attorney and popular legal website editor, stated on December 7, 2016, that all black individuals that serve on juries should automatically vote to free any black person who had been charged of murdering or committing a crime against a white person, especially a white man, despite the evidence.
Hey, she writes for The Nation. The only reason the magazine is still published is Katrina vanden Heuvel's money.