For the film, see Slaves film. Human and Animal Slavery , New York: Marcus With 3 Bears 1 White 2 Black According to those proposing a change in terminology, "slave" perpetuates the crime of slavery in language, by reducing its victims to a nonhuman noun instead of, according to Andi Cumbo-Floyd, "carry[ing] them forward as people, not the property that they were". The Story of an American Family.