Black graphic with a portrait of Charles Elliott (1792–1869) beside a quote from The Bible and Slavery: “A slave is a person divested of the ownership of himself, and conveyed, with all his powers of body and mind, to the proprietorship of another.“
Charles Elliott’s definition of slavery: a person stripped of ownership of themselves—body, mind, all capacities—transferred to another’s proprietorship. He doesn’t embellish. The question is whether tolerance for that erasure has outlasted the institution.
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