Hi Deb,

><snip> But if slaves were born and raised in slavery, were they ever
>technically "enslaved"? I doubt slave owners went around and said "*poof*,
>you're a slave." It also implies that these people were free to begin with,
>which they weren't. Thus using the word "enslaved" seems to give them a
>status which they did not have.

You raise an interesting point, Deb.  However, my reponse is: They were not
born slaves, though they may have been born into slavery.  [There is, again, a
difference between the dehumanization/objecthood of a person versus the
process that makes them so.]

Best wishes, sincerely,

Jay Heuman
Assistant Curator of Education
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
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