White Anti-Quarantine Protesters Have Cruelly Co-opted a Black 18th Century Slave

Earlier this week on Twitter, Penn State University linguistics professor Uju Anya posted a photo of a white woman in a red scarf holding up an image of an enslaved black woman, Anastácia, held in a muzzle and choker in 18th century Brazil. Next to the image, the white woman in the red scarf—who, in this photo, is protesting COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders and many counties’ and businesses’ requirements that patrons wear masks—has placed a…