slave name

slave name (plural slave names)

1. A name given to one by others rather than chosen by them for themselves, particularly a name or surname given to a person held in slavery, or passed down to their descendants.
   • 1883, George Alec Effinger, ‎Michael D. Resnick, Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, p. 23:

     Muffy was my slave name. It's what all those Columbia math majors called me.

   • 1995, Jewell P. Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau, p. 164:

     They might not know which name to call—my slave name, Marie Laveau, or the unknown African name that should've been mine.

   • 2019, Patricia San José Rico, Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction, p. 164:

     His point is to let white people know you don't accept your slave name.

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