Slavery (on Thursdays)

[Rahul]

Here's another one. If you dig through any old books they always refer to slaves as house servants, body servants, or just their job. Like Blacksmith or Carpenter. I read some book from an English fellow that traveled around the South before the war. He remarked on how all the Southerners referred to slaves as servants and never as slaves. I'll try finding that reference as well.

It was like Southerners could pretend they weren't really slave owners if they called them something else.

From the standpoint of understanding between the white and colored races, Little Rock has always been a good
place to live. The better class families did not speak of their retainers as slaves; they were called servants.

SLAVE NARRATIVES
A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11709/117...1709-h.htm