[Ads-l] Antedating of "Enslaved Person"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

This is a bit misleading--OED doesn't separate _enslaved person_ into a separate lemma; the 2021 is just the one quote under _enslaved_ adj. (otherwise dating to 1618) that happens to show that collocation.

I do agree that _enslaved person_ probably should be a separate entry, though, not least so that you could hang a note on it explaining that it's the recently favored term for _slave_.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 02:26:18PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> enslaved person (OED 2021)
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> 1794 Thomas Beattie Elements of Moral Science vol. 2, p. 79 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
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> Slavery may extend its baleful influence to the innocent children of the enslaved person, and even to their descendants.
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> Fred Shapiro
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