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Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by jpster on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:51AM (#25430259)
I’m trying to see something:

“Not all suffered the same Holocaust we know today. It’s just important to remember/question how diverse people’s Holocaust experiences actually were.”

Maybe it’s just me but these type of statements seem to miss the point. Given the deplorable state of American understanding of slavery, Reconstruction, the state-sanctioned apartheid that only ended a few decades ago, and all its effects that continue to reverberate, I don’t think “a nuanced understanding” of slavery is really what’s called for. The evidence suggests that most Americans never even learned the ABCs of slavery and its effects.

Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by pushECX on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:45PM (#25446587)
The parent comment you're responding to didn't downplay slavery in any way, nor did they say that this person had it better or worse. Just that this person's experience was different. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that slavery didn't always look the same as we may imagine. There were varying experiences. It's history.
Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by ptr2voidStar on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:53AM (#25439826)
Thank you! You summed up my feelings (about the comment you responded to), perfectly!
Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by TT3351 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:23AM (#25431091)
Because a proportion of America has been poorly educated, it's inappropriate to interrogate the primary sources slaves left behind? I don't follow.

Yeah, obviously we need to fix the appalling state of our Civil War and slavery history in this country.

Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by jpster on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:47AM (#25431311)
Does the account you posted here resemble most of the chronicled experiences you’ve encountered?
Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by TT3351 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:27AM (#25431751)
Nope! Never said it did. EDIT: Literally just picked a random (that I thought would fit in the space I had--didn't want to go over-long) passage from the Freedman's interviews section of the book.