No, I'm with George Carlin on this one: https://youtu.be/7n2PW1TqxQk. I loathe soft language like "enslaved people". "Slaves" doesn't sound nice, because slavery wasn't nice. Softening one softens the other in my opinion. Anybody who doesn't fully understand that slaves were humans and deserved to be treated as such, might well be beyond hope.
another small point, going even further, it most humanistic language is "enslaved people"
No, I'm with George Carlin on this one: https://youtu.be/7n2PW1TqxQk. I loathe soft language like "enslaved people". "Slaves" doesn't sound nice, because slavery wasn't nice. Softening one softens the other in my opinion. Anybody who doesn't fully understand that slaves were humans and deserved to be treated as such, might well be beyond hope.