[Ads-l] "slaves" and "enslaved [persons]" revisited

[Laurence Horn]

I just read this Times piece 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/us/georgetown-university-search-for-slave-descendants.html

and as a thought experiment tried to see how many of the occurrences of "slaves" could easily be replaced by "enslaved persons". (Note that there are references at some points to "enslaved African-Americans" or "the enslaved", along with the references to "slaves".)  It seemed to me that in some places the substitution would work fairly naturally, in others not so much. 

LH   
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