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Recent Examples of enslaver
The broader Healing History initiative brought together descendants of enslavers and the enslaved in dialogue to practice honest, often difficult conversation.
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Brianna Scott, NPR, 19 June 2025
Bader-King pointed out that both homes were built by enslaved people and both patriarchs were enslavers.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
In all likelihood, one or more Virginians purchased the Lyles children, while another enslaver carried their mother to Savannah, a city with strong slave-trading ties to Richmond.
—Robert Colby, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
These accounts portrayed enslaved people, regardless of plantation, experiencing a kind of nirvana for the entire Christmas period—utterly grateful for the generosity of their enslavers.
—Robert E. May / Made By History, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
Black describes the pre-war South as enclosed in a propaganda bubble, a steady media diet that told a story only from the enslavers’ point of view.
—Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
They were never enslaved but do not appear to have been enslavers, either.
—Chelsea Stieber, The Conversation, 14 May 2025
Many Quakers worked to abolish slavery, but many did not; some were themselves enslavers.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
In the 19th century, the French demanded compensation for the former enslavers of the Haitian people, rather than the other way around.
—Marlene L. Daut, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
Brianna Scott, NPR, 19 June 2025
Bader-King pointed out that both homes were built by enslaved people and both patriarchs were enslavers.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
In all likelihood, one or more Virginians purchased the Lyles children, while another enslaver carried their mother to Savannah, a city with strong slave-trading ties to Richmond.
—Robert Colby, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
These accounts portrayed enslaved people, regardless of plantation, experiencing a kind of nirvana for the entire Christmas period—utterly grateful for the generosity of their enslavers.
—Robert E. May / Made By History, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
Black describes the pre-war South as enclosed in a propaganda bubble, a steady media diet that told a story only from the enslavers’ point of view.
—Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
They were never enslaved but do not appear to have been enslavers, either.
—Chelsea Stieber, The Conversation, 14 May 2025
Many Quakers worked to abolish slavery, but many did not; some were themselves enslavers.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
In the 19th century, the French demanded compensation for the former enslavers of the Haitian people, rather than the other way around.
—Marlene L. Daut, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enslaver
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The study also concluded that 17 of Pope Leo's ancestors were Black, while 12 were slaveholders, owning between one and 20 people.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Anxious slaveholders constructed a rigid hierarchy intended to prevent their numerical superiors from launching large-scale revolts.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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In Galveston, freedmen celebrated Jubilee Day just one year later, on June 19, 1866.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
19 June 2025
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The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages.—
Timothy Welbeck,
The Conversation,
16 June 2025
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“Enslaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enslaver. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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