Tag: Enslavers
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Making the Worst Situation Worse: The Cruelty Of Naming Enslaved People
The institution of slavery was dehumanizing for the enslaved. It had to be. In order to keep the belief that the people held in bondage were less than, their enslavers had to treat them as subhuman. One of the ways that they did this was to name the enslaved. It was an attempt to…
Clermont State Historic Site 