Английская Википедия:Born a slave

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Arthur Crumpler, a formerly enslaved blacksmith born in Virginia, who had worked for the U.S. Army as a contraband during the American Civil War and experienced wage theft because he could not read, was attending night school in Boston in 1898

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Memoir of Pierre Toussaint: Born a Slave In St. Domingo (1854) is a slave narrative that uses the phrase born a slave as part of the title.

Born a slave is an archaic stock phrase that was commonly used to describe people born enslaved under the system of chattel slavery in the Western hemisphere but eventually granted legal personhood, either through escape, lawsuit, manumission, or mass emancipation. The phrase was used for both self-identification and by external narrators.

Over time, however, civil rights activists began to resist the use of the term as a fundamental misunderstanding of the inalienable rights of humanity. For example, in a 1916 homage to A.M.E. church founder Richard Allen, a coreligionist wrote, Шаблон:Quote Similarly, a 1908 obituary for Blind Tom concluded, Шаблон:Quote In a contemporary guide to writing about slavery, the NAACP of Culpeper, Virginia, advises: "No one was 'born a slave'; instead people were born with 'free' or 'slave' status" conferred upon them involuntarily.

In response to American law that automatically enslaved the children of the enslaved, the African-American poet George M. Horton wrote in the early 19th century:

See also

• Why Born Enslaved!