Another part of the exhibition at the National Museum was a card that talked about language related to slavery. This made an argument that “the trade in enslaved people” is a preferred term to the slave trade. It emphasises that the people affected were people first of all and that something happened to them rather than being slaves as their whole identity.
I was interested to see this term being used on a sign I saw on The Christmas Steps in Bristol yesterday.
It is interesting that the Creole is described as a corruption.