kottke.orgNew language for talking about slavery and the Civil War, like “labor camps” instead of “plantations”. https://kottke.org/15/10/new-language-for-slavery-and-the-civil-war
Jonathan Hartley@kottke Brief summary:
Slave owners (legitimizes concept of ownership) → Enslavers
Plantation (romanticised obfuscation) → Labor camp
Union → United States [of America] ("Union" vs Confederacy falsely frames the war as between two symmetrical sides. However, the USA did not cease to exist during the war. Confederate states seceded, but the rest continued to be the USA.)
Compromise → Appeasement (to more accurately describe legislative packages that avoided disunion in the antebellum era)