Baltimore's Slave Markets

[@markconner9863]

Thank you very much for this great and important presentation and thank you for the use of thoughtful, non-dehumanizing language. That said, I'd like to suggest the of "slavery markets", rather than slave markets. There is no reason not to always strive to eliminate the harmful use of the word "slave", no matter the context or intent. It always replaceable with more respectful language.

[@jayizzett]

Slavery has a different context than slave ?

[@markconner9863]

@@jayizzett It has a different meaning, context has nothing to do with it. "Slave" was used in the presentation as a modifier of "markets", i.e., a market where slaves were sold. "Slaves" is dehumanizing in that it labels otherwise free humans as something other than free humans - they were at all times free humans that had been enslaved. "Enslaved" is the more respectful language choice and is becoming the more frequent usage choice for that reason.

[@LilyoftheValeyrising]

So very interesting! It appears some of the tunnels were under the current Digital Harbor high school. My sons went there back when Bill Gates funded a computer training program for them (Microsoft).