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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 16, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
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> I think I read somewhere that although "enslaved [persons]" is now prescribed (I don't remember by what authority), "slaves" may be used when it better fits the flow of the sentence.

Or the flow of the headline:  "Georgetown University Confronts Its Role in a Grim Industry: The Slave Trade" > "...The Enslaved Persons Trade"?

LH

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>      From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:08 PM
> Subject: [ADS-L] "slaves" and "enslaved [persons]" revisited
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> I just read this Times piece 
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2016_04_17_us_georgetown-2Duniversity-2Dsearch-2Dfor-2Dslave-2Ddescendants.html&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=12fC-pYGJw4YXE_teB320l8CPgHS_SWw5RWKgOZIe6k&s=LVvsApDD1KBWQBgRZv5A5YthxNL_DlpFA3rIPsPwMog&e= 
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> 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. 
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