Descendants of enslaved and enslaver retell overlapping histories from opposed viewpoints

Evidence

Amazingly, after reading the information provided by Dr. Taylor, it was apparent that what I had, what I was witnessing, was the intersection of two family histories. The same stories, told from two very different points of view: one from the enslaved man Papa Renty, and the other told by the slaveholder Benjamin Franklin Taylor. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 501

Categorization

• XREF: The same story from opposing sides echoes the reader’s prior framing of property law as the afterlife of slavery and the two-family archival record structures work in Toi Derricotte or Saidiya Hartman’s archives of the enslaved.