Why do people refer to slaves as "African Americans?"  I think as a
legal matter they were not citizens (see, Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 U.S.
393 [1857]), and thus not "Americans."  A more correct label would be
Africans enslaved in America.

J. South

 

 


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