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Often I'm bemused by the recent phrase "enslaved person." This phrase comes about as a rejection of the word "slave," the nomenclature for someone enslaved during the 19th century in America. Enslaved person speaks to what was done, slave speaks to who the person was. Nowhere in this novel do you read enslaved person, but rather the whole host of titles pegged onto people who found themselves in chains and forced to work. At the end of the boo ...more
Often I'm bemused by the recent phrase "enslaved person." This phrase comes about as a rejection of the word "slave," the nomenclature for someone enslaved during the 19th century in America. Enslaved person speaks to what was done, slave speaks to who the person was. Nowhere in this novel do you read enslaved person, but rather the whole host of titles pegged onto people who found themselves in chains and forced to work. At the end of the boo ...more
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