Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
11-15-2011
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
Slave, servant, fugitive, runaway, master, slave owner, and farm. What do all of these words have in common? Well, if you went to Angela Roberts-Burton's NAI session, "Overcoming the Obstacles of Interpreting Slavery," you would know that all of these are words that she urged interpreters not to use when interpreting slavery and slave life. Instead, you should use: enslaved, freedom seeker, fled bondage, slave holder, and slave plantation. [excerpt]
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Dinkelaker, Jacob, "Don't Say Slave: Interpreting Slavery at NAI 2011" (2011). Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public. 169.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/interpretcw/169
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Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public is written by alum and adjunct professor, John Rudy. Each post is his own opinions, musings, discussions, and questions about the Civil War era, public history, historical interpretation, and the future of history. In his own words, it is "a blog talking about how we talk about a war where over 600,000 died, 4 million were freed and a nation forever changed. Meditating on interpretation, both theory and practice, at no charge to you."