Claim: Slave masters invented the phrase 'good morning' to taunt enslaved people who were mourning dead or missing family members.
Fact-check: 'Good morning' link to slavery a modern fabrication
Verdict: false. 'morning' and 'mourning' originate from different word stems and there is no evidence slave owners used the latter as a term of mockery.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: William Summers
Date published: 2024-09-19T00:00:00