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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