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Recent Examples of slaveholder
The new champion went on to declare that his name was no longer Clay; black-American surnames were often inherited from the family names of white slaveholders.
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Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
On the debit side, Sarastro is a slaveholder and male supremacist with the kidnapping of an under-age princess to answer for.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Numerous schools have also been named after Tubman, including in 2022 when an elementary school in Chicago was renamed after the Chicago Sun-Times reported that 30 schools in the area were named after people with racist views and slaveholders.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
Several scholars and students think that slave owners freed their slaves out of pure generosity, embracing the idea that enslaved people were part of the family of slaveholders, and that the color line didn’t exist in countries such as Brazil.
—Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
On the debit side, Sarastro is a slaveholder and male supremacist with the kidnapping of an under-age princess to answer for.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Numerous schools have also been named after Tubman, including in 2022 when an elementary school in Chicago was renamed after the Chicago Sun-Times reported that 30 schools in the area were named after people with racist views and slaveholders.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
Several scholars and students think that slave owners freed their slaves out of pure generosity, embracing the idea that enslaved people were part of the family of slaveholders, and that the color line didn’t exist in countries such as Brazil.
—Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
Noun
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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
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The Vigilance Committee subscribed to papers including the Baltimore Sun and Richmond Dispatch, which carried advertisements from slavers looking for runaways.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Jan. 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
Noun
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Both the Maryland Gazette and the Virginia Gazette facilitated the capture of enslaved people who had run away by publishing advertisements placed by their enslavers.—
Alexandra Cox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 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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But, when Dawes agents were putting together their lists, freedmen and their descendants were often kept on a separate roll, or not included at all.—
Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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