abstract:A slave name is a name given to a person who is or has been enslaved or a name inherited from enslaved ancestors. Modern use of the term applies mostly to African-Americans and West Indians who are descended from slaves, and are thereby capable of having a "slave name".
Toset up an NISclient, you need todefine the NIS domain name, start thelocal NIS services, and theninitializethese services tolook uptheirinformationfrom an NIS master, or master slave.
An IPCC spokesperson said the complainant, who is Afro-Caribbean, had taken offence after a civilian staff member who was interviewing him, said his name would have originated from slave plantations.