tot slaaf gemaakte
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tot slaaf gemaakte m or f (plural tot slaaf gemaakten)
- an enslaved person
- 2021 February 3, Toef Jaeger, “De boei van Menig [Menig's shackle]”, in NRC Handelsblad[1], retrieved 19 March 2021:
- Zijn voorouders hadden op de plantage Overtoom aan de rivier de Para in Suriname gewerkt. Toen de slavernij in 1863 werd afgeschaft, werkten er nog 193 tot slaaf gemaakten.
- His ancestors worked at the Overtoom plantation on the Para river in Suriname. By the time slavery was abolished in 1863, 193 enslaved people were still working there.
Usage notes
[edit]Used by speakers who desire to explicitly humanise victims of slavery or make the nature of slavery as a social construct explicit.