ENEnslavers
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6 revisions | Lindsey Peterson (CWRGM Co-Director) at Aug 28, 2023 03:36 PM | Revision changes |
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EnslaversThe term "enslavers" includes any person (male and female) who enslaved one or more of the more than 12.5 million people sold into the United States' race-based system of human chattel slavery between the 16th and 19th centuries. Enslavers used terms like "master," "owner," or "slaveholder" to imply a natural hierarchy within slavery and/or to imply that certain members of society were more capable than others. CWRGM, along with many other historical and archival resources, instead adopts the term "enslaver" to underscore the active effort on the part of enslavers to create and perpetuate a system of bondage over equally capable human beings deserving of the same natural rights (National Park Service). | EnslaversEnslavers includes any person (male and female) who enslaved the more than 12.5 million people sold into a race-based system of human chattel slavery between the 16th–19th centuries in American history. |