{"id":42355,"date":"2015-08-23T01:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T01:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42355"},"modified":"2015-08-23T01:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T01:33:45","slug":"times-regrets-slave-mistress-in-julian-bonds-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42355","title":{"rendered":"Times Regrets \u2018Slave Mistress\u2019 in Julian Bond\u2019s Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/20\/times-regrets-slave-mistress-in-julian-bonds-obituary\" target=\"_blank\">Times Regrets \u2018Slave Mistress\u2019 in Julian Bond\u2019s Obituary<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-20<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sulliview\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Sullivan<\/a><\/strong>, Public Editor<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Bond\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Bond\u2019s<\/a> death on Saturday, The Times published a lengthy and well-written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42257\" target=\"_blank\">obituary<\/a> summing up the life and work of the civil rights champion. But many readers were bothered by a single sentence in the front-page article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJulian Bond\u2019s great-grandmother <a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~ug97\/quilt\/bond.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Bond<\/a> was the slave mistress of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky<\/a> farmer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many readers wrote to me to protest the phrase, on the grounds that a slave, by definition, can\u2019t be in the kind of consensual or romantic relationship that the word \u201cmistress\u201d suggests. One of them noted it wasn\u2019t the first time the phrase had appeared in a Times obituary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/20\/times-regrets-slave-mistress-in-julian-bonds-obituary\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Regrets \u2018Slave Mistress\u2019 in Julian Bond\u2019s Obituary The New York Times 2015-08-20 Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor After Julian Bond\u2019s death on Saturday, The Times published a lengthy and well-written obituary summing up the life and work of the civil rights champion. But many readers were bothered by a single sentence in the front-page article: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,459,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[20795,7257,20794,2640,20704,2327],"class_list":["post-42355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-jane-bond","tag-julian-bond","tag-margaret-sullivan","tag-new-york-times","tag-roy-reed","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42356,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42355\/revisions\/42356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}