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ceejayoztoday at 5:15 PM1 replyview on HN

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

A lot of slaves had no last name, or only their owners’.


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mathgeektoday at 5:24 PM

Not to sound pedantic (I believe this is a very important distinction), but as far as I'm aware most slaves were not _given_ last names by their slavers. They often had (if taken into slavery) or were given (if born in slavery) their own names within their own cultures.

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