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    Eric Zorn: Language matters: The shift from 'slave' to 'enslaved person' may be difficult, but it's important

    by Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune Sep 10, 2019 4 minutes

    I was 16 paragraphs into the powerful opening essay of The New York Times' recent 1619 Project on the 400th anniversary of chattel slavery in the United States when I realized author Nikole Hannah-Jones had studiously avoided using the term "slave."

    In its place she deployed variations on "enslaved," as in the passage where she noted that the U.S. Constitution "prohibited the federal government from intervening to end the importation of enslaved Africans for a term of 20 years, allowed Congress to mobilize the militia to put down insurrections by the enslaved and forced states that had outlawed

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