There's an interesting, detailed comment by Erusian on the Astral Codex Ten blog about the topics covered in this post and more, with some thoughtful replies on their part and by various others in that thread, as well. The thread starts here:
In part, Erusian asserts that "the British didn't record them either so it's actually about 200 years of [name] erasure. The desert actually starts with the end of the indenture of African Americans (in the 1660s mostly) and the shift to [chattel] slavery. Prior to that we have, though only sometimes preserved, indenture contracts."
There's an interesting, detailed comment by Erusian on the Astral Codex Ten blog about the topics covered in this post and more, with some thoughtful replies on their part and by various others in that thread, as well. The thread starts here:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-281/comment/17514288
In part, Erusian asserts that "the British didn't record them either so it's actually about 200 years of [name] erasure. The desert actually starts with the end of the indenture of African Americans (in the 1660s mostly) and the shift to [chattel] slavery. Prior to that we have, though only sometimes preserved, indenture contracts."