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Letter to the Editor: In “A Few Words About Words” (CWN Sept.-Oct. 2024) Gould Hagler posits that references to slaves as “enslaved people” or “enslaved African Americans,” and to slave owners as “enslavers,” “seem to be an effort by writers to say something about their attitude toward slavery.” Conceding that there may be no moral distinction between the act of subjugating a human being into the condition of slavery, and the act of purchasing an already subjugated human being in order to perpetuate that distinction, Hagler nevertheless states that to describe the dominant actors in both circumstances as “enslavers” is inaccurate because it applies the same term to two different things. He says the “extra syllables add no extra information about slaves or
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slavery” (what extra information do we need?). He goes on to say that if writers continue to use the term “enslave”
an expansive sense (to describe subsequent slave ownershi in addition to the act of initial human subjugation), the that is what the word will come to mean. I can’t see the problem with this; and it troubles me that I’m apparently
supposed to. He then states that a book author “erred” in stating that a shipowner “kidnapped” slave cargo in 1860 when in fact the shipowner “purchased” the cargo, implying that the owner was well within his legal rights transport the “unfortunate men and women” who comprised the cargo and who may or may not have already been kidnapped by their initial enslavers, but certainly not b the shipowner-purchaser on whose watch a quarter of his cargo perished during the Atlantic crossing. The implicat is that 19th century American slave owners did not, in a legal or technical or Merriam-Webster sense, engage in either enslavement or kidnapping when they bought human beings and are therefore to be excused or at least not semantically “judged” by contemporary writers with contemporary moral sensibilities. Nevertheless, one can certainly argue that American slave owners engaged in continuing enslavement and forced kidnapping under the moral and legal standards of the day, even if those were not the prevailing contemporary standards in slave-owning communities, as surely a meaningful number of American combatants and non-combatants also argued during the Civil War. Theodore Kingsle
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Response from Gould Hagler: Regarding a moral distinction ween buying a slave and reducing ree person to the condition of very, I wrote “perhaps not.” It ld depend, wouldn’t it? Mr. gsley does not dispute my point t these are different acts. On th ject of the extra syllables, he s “what extra information do we d?” Exactly my point. The extra adds nothing. As to the expansio
the meaning of “enslave,” I was ing a point about how language ks. I don’t expect anyone to have roblem with this fact.
I do believe that those who emplo ti-syllabic phrases that add information are trying to say ething about their own attitudes.
think of no other reason, and Mr gsley does not offer one. Finally states that when I pointed out th word “kidnapped” was a misuse the term, I was implying that the tain’s act was not evil. That cha untrue and the insult unwarranted Gould Hagl
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