I really appreciate how @fivefifths wrote about this.pic.twitter.com/mVXlrgvmUM
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I really appreciate how @fivefifths wrote about this.pic.twitter.com/mVXlrgvmUM
Another paragraph that I thought articulated an important point really clearly: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/the-enslaved-woman-they-called-lola/527532/ …pic.twitter.com/BjbCcKQqDl
The use of the word "slave" is difficult: it borrows from an American context to try and cut through cultural barriers
that move becomes especially more fraught when the culture you're trying to both elucidate and challenge is one shaped by American empire
And then of course it also ignores the problem of slave vs. enslaved person
But Tizon did a really important thing by calling her a slave. He didn't call her his nanny. Or a maid. Or a helper.
He had a really big awful soul-destroying truth to look at, and man, he looked straight at it the best he could.
And as Vann says, the horrible thing is that when you are part of that relationship—even if you're born into it—the best is still not enough
That's why Tizon's essay is so fucking haunting.
The essay introduces it in context of American slavery as depicted on television https://twitter.com/lex_nyc/status/866071617952260098 …
And it's The Atlantic, with an important Civil War-era legacy.
Even the editor's note mentions that.
The article forces us to grapple with the existence of degrees of servitude.Lola isn’t a slave in the antebellum US sense, but is unfree.
Thank you The Atlantic.
It's unbelievable that she was enslaved in the US, where slavery is illegal; "Lola's" bondage was horribly all she ever knew. Very, very sad
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