Historians have been doing a good deal of reflecting of late on how they use language. In 2018 Gaines Foster reflected on the importance of the very name that we attach to the “Civil War.” Many of us now routinely refer to the “enslaved” as opposed to “slaves” and “enslavers” as opposed to “slaveowner.” In both cases, the former acknowledges a relations…
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