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the slave vs the slave person

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'The slave' is a more common and concise way to refer to someone who is enslaved. 'The slave person' is less common and redundant, as 'slave' already implies a person who is enslaved.

Last updated: March 19, 2024 • 624 views

the slave

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to refer to a person who is enslaved or held in servitude.

Examples:

  • The slave worked in the fields from dawn till dusk.
  • She was determined to free the slave from captivity.
  • The slave escaped from the plantation under the cover of darkness.
  • The Slave is a novel written by Isaac Bashevis Singer originally written in Yiddish that tells the story of Jacob, a scholar sold into slavery in the aftermath of the ...
  • “The Slave is a burningly radiant, intensely beautiful book. Singer is answering his age like a prophet.” ―Ted Hughes, The New York Review of Books.
  • The Slave Trade. "Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall St. Photo courtesy Library of Congress (No. 0707). Resistance to lifetime servitude began with the first ...
  • In a fourth novel, ''The Slave,'' Isaac Bashevis Singer has written a sort of Jewish '' Pilgrim's Progress.'' It is not a work for all tastes, but it is nobly conceived and ...

Alternatives:

  • the enslaved person
  • the captive
  • the bonded laborer
  • the serf
  • the indentured servant

the slave person

This phrase is correct but less common in English.

This phrase is less common and redundant, as 'slave' already implies a person who is enslaved. It may be used for emphasis or clarity in specific contexts.
  • The earlier Covenant Code provides a potentially more valuable and direct form of relief, namely a degree of protection for the slave's person (their body and its ...
  • Jun 30, 2011 ... ... insight that Police power may be used for the protection the Citizen or agaisnt the Slave/person for control and profit if you can read Attorney.
  • of the slave's person but the welfare of the state. This is an extreme view which has at least the merit of consistency. The older interpretations are less consistent.
  • May 17, 2015 ... The slave master kills the human in the slave person in order to hold whatever is left of the person in bondage. The slave holder is inhumane.

Alternatives:

  • the enslaved person
  • the captive
  • the bonded laborer
  • the serf
  • the indentured servant

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