At 03:51 PM 2/20/98 -0600, you wrote:
>At 04:41 PM 2/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>But isn't that distorting history?  The Africans who worked on the
>>plantation were most definitely slaves.  Some of them had it real good,
>>living better than poor, free whites and some of them were treated worse
>>than abused animals.
>
>No matter how "good" they may appear to have had it, they were still
>enslaved.  That cannot have been "good" in any meaningful sense.

Obviously, "good" was used in a relative sense.

>>Why is the use of the word "slave" such a bad thing?
>
>Because it represents one group of humans systematically degrading another
>for profit.

That is what happened to most blacks in America before Emmacipation right?
How is not using the word slave in an exhibit pertaining to slaves any
different from trying to create an exhibit on Jews in Nazi Germany without
using the word "Holocaust"?

Deb Fuller