The Discourse Lover
this is incredibly incorrectpic.twitter.com/bI1XqDLXBD
republican political rhetoric from this era routinely refers to subjects of monarchies as "slaves." that verse is about the British
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taking joy in killing escaped slaves would mean recognizing African-American agency- pro-slavery rhetoric from the time very rarely did
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the pro-slavery line was that slaves who sided with Britain were being "misled" or "stirred up." many claimed to pity rather than hate them
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sounds bizarre, but during the Civil War, southerners were generally shocked & saddened that slaves actively supported the Union
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slavery was built on the lie that it was a natural arrangement blacks were happy with. facts that threatened the lie were denied/suppressed
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here's "slave" as a metaphor for subjugation by a foreign monarch in Robert Burns's 'Scots Wha Hae' (1793)pic.twitter.com/dT68t3KZff
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here it is in Méhul's 'Chant du Départ,' the anthem of the Jacobins (1794)pic.twitter.com/9MK8i3vcTv
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anyway, there are plenty of valid reasons to sit for the anthem without doing some half-baked, anachronistic close reading of the lyrics
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@Trillburne you're quite sure about this, right? That the word 'slave' here refers to subjects of the crown, not freed black Americans? - Show more
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@andytobo@Trillburne yeah wasn't this about the time southerners started to transition from "necessary evil" to "actually objectively Good" -
@SKRollins@andytobo exactly. by the eve of the Civil War, lots of founders' writings on slavery would've been perplexing to slaveholders -
@Trillburne@SKRollins@andytobo Some went so far as to explicitly repudiate Jefferson, iirc. -
@grylxndr@SKRollins@andytobo whoa, I'd never heard that. do you know where I could read more about that? -
@Trillburne@SKRollins@andytobo I'd have to go through some old class stuff, may not find it. If I do though, I'll follow up. -
@Trillburne@SKRollins@andytobo Googled on a hunch it was fucking Calhoun, and... http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/oregon-bill-speech/ …pic.twitter.com/rVH1rIzB9B
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@grylxndr@SKRollins@andytobo hahaha goddamn, of course it was - Show more
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@Trillburne in lead up to the revolutionary war it cld refer to taxation/Stamp Act. Enslavers critiquing "slavery"https://twitter.com/limerick1914/status/730111818518171649 … -
@Limerick1914 I thought of you when I was writing these. Didn't you write abt "slavery" rhetoric wrt Gerry Adams's recent controversy?
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@Trillburne so why is it directly adjacent to "hireling"? -
@MattYaspan republicans thought people only fought for kings for money (hireling) or due to coercion (slave), rather than out of patriotism
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@Trillburne wow. Its pretty nuts how regularly words change meaning.
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