"Enslaved people are not so much set free as they are made free, a long and hard process... of years"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/the-enslaved-woman-they-called-lola/527532/ …
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And then of course it also ignores the problem of slave vs. enslaved person
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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.
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He had a really big awful soul-destroying truth to look at, and man, he looked straight at it the best he could.
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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
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That's why Tizon's essay is so fucking haunting.
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The essay introduces it in context of American slavery as depicted on television https://twitter.com/lex_nyc/status/866071617952260098 …
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And it's The Atlantic, with an important Civil War-era legacy.
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Even the editor's note mentions that.
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