400 YEARS (SINCE 1619), BUT STILL A SLAVE. In Texas if a man rapes a horse, he gets 10 years in prison. But the New York State Appellate Division ruled that African-American women can be raped on the floor of a stock exchange- in this instance, The American Stock Exchange. DAWN BANTUM V AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE, LLC 2004 NY Slip Op 03751 [7 AD3d 551] May 10, 2004.