What are reparations? Why are reparations for slavery controversial? What is justice? What does justice look like for those affected by slavery? How is the history of slavery remembered today? Why were the elections in South Africa important? April 23, What were some challenges that the newly independent African states faced?
What was the Pan-African movement? How did Africans begin to resist colonialism? How did Europeans use the idea of race to justify colonialism? I want to elaborate on the fact of changing or using substitution only discredits the real story. Not acknowledge. Substantially that is a larger difference. That is a pure example of watering down.
Not showing the truth of what white southerners said about black slaves is demeaning and disrespectful to the black community. So why change slave to enslave? As well as grasping the realization that slaves were people held against their will. But as I said before, I partly agree with Doctor McCoy when using the term enslaved person in the context of a conversation or in literature.
We are no longer in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, language has changed and continues to. In a small but important way, we carry them forward as people, not the property that they were in that time.
This is not a minor thing, this change of language. After all, as writers, we understand the power of language to shape us as much as it changes those who read our work. We owe it to ourselves and our readers to use our words to make good things and honor people rather than perpetuate ideas or systems that hurt us all.
What do you think? Are we too careful about our choice of words? Sandford decision, and use that property as they would in slave states. Furthermore, U.
To regionalize slavery, to draw definite borders around so fluid an institution only serves to limit a broader, perhaps borderless conceptualization of slavery, freedom seekers, and the Underground Railroad. In the era of slavery, enslaved individuals were defined as property, i. Enslaved individuals are human and have the same emotional, mental and physical capabilities as other human beings.
These terms also have a construct between those with power i. Slave master and slave owner implies that every person who had slaves was an abuser or mistreated them, when in fact, this does not define every individual who had slaves.
Furthermore, property does not have the emotional, mental or physical capability of human and further implies that slaves are lesser. Explore This Park. Underground Railroad. Language of Slavery. Freedom Seeker Escapee, Fugitive, Runaway This term reflects the freedom of spirit by referring to escaping African Americans as "freedom seekers," rather than runaways, fugitives or escapees.
An abolitionist takes a political position, and is likely politically active. The abolitionist may not act on their antislavery principles by helping individuals to escape from slavery. Antislavery Activist. A person morally or politically opposed to slavery. This person might, on occasion, help a freedom seeker. The activist might be a southerner and could be the spouse or child of a slaveholder.
The activist might come from any ethnic, political, or religious group. This is an alternate term for enslaved African Americans. It is preferable to "slave" because "bondsman" suggests a condition imposed by law.
Using this term for an enslaved African American, a human being is equated with livestock or furniture or other tangible, portable personal property. This refers to an individual who escorted or guided freedom seekers between stations or safe houses. A conductor need not have been a member of an organized section of the Underground Railroad, only someone who provided an element of guidance to the freedom seeker.
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