they were slaves. https://twitter.com/tylerfaye_/status/1259299549119569920

they were literally property. they were not human. and it benefits none of us—and i wager that it deeply taunts our ancestors—to pretend that this is not true.

property is not human; neither is the slave.

and the real gag is that trying to apply this “human” first language to the experiences and lives of our ancestors keeps them in the same box; on the same boat; in the same fields; beaten by the same whips.

what to the slave is humanity when the human was the master?