Seasoning inadvertently forged new Black culture rather than erasing identity

Evidence

But as the sociologist Glenn Bracey writes, “Out of the ashes of white denigration, we gave birth to ourselves.” For as much as white people tried to pretend, Black people were not chattel. And so the process of seasoning, instead of erasing identity, served an opposite purpose: in the void, we forged a new culture all our own. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 169

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