There are powerful resonances between "My Family's Slave" and slaveholders' narratives from the antebellum United States.https://twitter.com/hongriver/status/864506454321049600 …
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I'm glad it exists. It's an important piece. But if I'd been Tizon's editor, it would never have been published in its current form.
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Genuinely curious, what would you have done with it as an editor? B-c I agree with your take on the piece.
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Disagree. I think he completely understands it (once he becomes older) & did the best he could, knowing who he & his parents really were.
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That's the impression he wants the reader to leave with. But I don't buy it.
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Thank you for articulating what I've been thinking about this story all day but couldn't quite get to.
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(Unfortunately, it was not presented in that context. How could it be?)
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