Runaway Slave Names Recaptured: An Investigation of the Personal First Names of Fugitive Slaves Advertised in the Virginia Gazette Between 1736 and 1776 by Iman Makeba Laversuch

“…This is followed by a classification of the collection of fugitive slave names into eight descriptive categories and a description of the assortment of personal names listed for the runaway slaves. …”
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In the Name of Freedom by I. M. Nick

“… The ubiquitous image of the sprawling 19th century Southern plantation has meant that much of the research on US slave names has focused on regions below the mid-Atlantic (Desrochers 2002). …”
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Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany by Josef Köstlbauer

“… This contribution uses a set of documents dealing with the case of a fugitive slave named Samuel Johannes in Upper Lusatia in 1754 to demonstrate the merits of a historical semantics–inspired approach. …”
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Family Name Adoption in the Dutch Colonies at the Abolition of Slavery in the Context of National Family Name Legislation: A Reflection on Contemporary Name Change by Leendert Brouwer

“…Is it right to consider the names in question as slave names? Are they really that bad? It is more likely that precisely the exceptional position now obtained leads to undesirable profiling. …”
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IDENTITY IN TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED AND THE BLUEST EYE by Zeki Edis

“…On the other hand, in Beloved, Morrison portrays the life of a female slave named Sethe. After many sacrifices, Sethe manages to escape slavery but it leaves horrific impacts on her. …”
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‘Van vandag af is jou naam Februarie!’ Naamgewing en naamstroping in tekste van Diana Ferrus, I. D. du Plessis en Rayda Jacob by Shamiega Chaudhari

“…Their identity was hardly of interest to the colonists and it is therefore not surprising that the colonists were not concerned about the effects and consequences of name stripping on the marginalized slave. Naming is an ancient practice which deserves to be explored in its relation to identity. …”
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Al-WalÄ` in Islamic Inheritance Law: Looking for Its Legal Effects by Muhammad Habibi Miftakhul Marwa

“…Second,<em> al- walÄ’</em> brings a legal effect on the freed slaves, namely, the person who releases the slave, the slave’s left wealth, guardianship, legal competence, and the inheritance itself.…”
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La fable ésopique, littérature de résistance, de soumission ou de subversion de l’ordre social? by Marie Claude CHARPENTIER

“…Are Aesop’s fables – written by a slave named Aesop – ineluctably a script of submission to slave order? …”
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