The Association of Educational Publishers, among others, has banned the use
of the word slave in favor of enslaved person, worker, or laborer.
Black/blacks is also banned as a noun, and niggardly is banned to be replaced with
frugal or cheap. A good, and pretty funny, work on the attempts to politically
correct-up language is The Language Police by Diane Ravitch.
At the time slaves were legally owned just like a horse or carriage or any
other personal property. Attempting to convey some other status is
historically inaccurate and just plain dumb.
J South
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