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Recent Examples of slaveholder
Academic research on the mindset of modern slaveholders is limited.
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Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
And so in the case of slavery, that meant sometimes women slaveholders who were very violent and enacted their own forms of punishment and retribution against enslaved people.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
All fell victim to the armed forces of the slaveholders’ republic and to the wartime slave trade, embodying the lengths to which Rebels would go to keep emancipation at bay.
—Robert Colby, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Christian abolitionists and slaveholders, for example, despised and critiqued one another on Biblical terms.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
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Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
And so in the case of slavery, that meant sometimes women slaveholders who were very violent and enacted their own forms of punishment and retribution against enslaved people.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
All fell victim to the armed forces of the slaveholders’ republic and to the wartime slave trade, embodying the lengths to which Rebels would go to keep emancipation at bay.
—Robert Colby, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Christian abolitionists and slaveholders, for example, despised and critiqued one another on Biblical terms.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for slaveholder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
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Three-quarters of officers, from both the northern and southern parts of the US, used enslaved servants during their military careers, with southern slavers especially determined to expand slavery within the Army (as elsewhere).—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Mar. 2025
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An exception was post-apartheid South Africa, where Jaco Boshoff, a researcher at the Iziko Museums, was looking for a Dutch slaver called the Meermin.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The woman gives the girls two vials of concoctions, one for the zombie and one for the slave driver.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
18 July 2021
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Brandon’s boss arrives at the meeting trying to stop the whole thing and the girls realize this guy is the slave driver.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
18 July 2021
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Among them is Edmonia Lewis, whose 1875 sculpture Hagar depicts an Egyptian woman from the Bible who was impregnated by her enslaver’s husband.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The area was named after Joseph Gee, an enslaver who built a cotton plantation there in 1816.—
Kaila Philo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Feb. 2025
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Abigail Barnett and her father, James, a freedman of the Muscogee Nation, were deeded the land that would become Boley, and many other Black Creek citizens settled nearby.—
Caleb Gayle,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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Abigail Barnett and her father, James, a freedman of the Muscogee Nation, were deeded the land that would become Boley, and many other Black Creek citizens settled nearby.—
Caleb Gayle,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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