What is a slave?

The slave
is the human property of its human owner and as such could be used in any way the human owner
saw fit. For example, a slave could be utilized as an economic factor of production or to serve
the personal and /or private needs of the owner. When the issue of slavery with regard to its
being property or humanity was argued before the Supreme Court in 1857 the Dred Scott case, the
court's decision was that a slave was property, a thing, a commodity with no other value than
the market value of the day.