The enslaved person’s name survives in history while his enslaver’s is forgotten.

Evidence

And aren’t you reading Samba’s story right now? Aren’t you curling your lips around his people’s language and tasting the blood of struggle? And what of that colonizer who resorted to the cowardly wheel, recording what he believed to be victory over Samba— Be honest with me. Will you even remember that Frenchman’s name? — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 251

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how archives preserve the names of the prosecuted but erase the prosecutors — the colonizer is anonymous, the enslaved is memorialized, inverts the usual power of memory.
• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s overall reframing thesis: who gets remembered depends on what a culture dates itself from.