LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words
@popcornreel So very important to make the distinction! As an educator, I have used the word enslaved for quite a few years now. But we have a long way to go in educating the masses.