Enslavement cannot be reimagined as commerce, companionship, religious obligation, cultural inheritance, or divine purpose. To enslave another human being is not a business arrangement, not a partnership, and not a bond of friendship, sisterhood, family, community, or faith. It is never love, never loyalty, never devotion, never culture. It is a quiet violence, a deliberate erasure, of autonomy, dignity, and the essence of personhood. It is domination rendered absolute. It is cruelty in its most unadorned form. It reduces a living, breathing individual to an instrument of control, stripping away identity and humanity with calculated precision. No tradition, doctrine, or ideology can refine, redeem, or disguise such brutality; it remains, in every era and under every name, a profound violation of human dignity.
If you believe this is or ever was God’s plan, then you are not placing your faith in God at all – you are attempting to take HIS place, and that belief is delusional.
I have no respect for anyone involved in the harm I endured. And if you believe what happened to me was acceptable, justified, or deserved, then you are profoundly mistaken. Such a position reflects a fundamental misjudgment of the gravity of the situation. Your criminal actions were criminal, and I will not excuse them.
Jennifer Nicole Nelson, Principal Designer
