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 Query -- once the enslaved people are no longer enslaved what is the correct terminology? I'm going to be writing on the Outer Banks and the Civil War and I want to use the right terms. Thank you.
@legalquilts @popcornreel survivors?
However, the intergenerational trauma remains.