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Recent Examples of enslaver
Ben Ross had originally worked as a timber foreman under his enslaver, Anthony Thompson, a wealthy landowner in the county.
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Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
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
The area was named after Joseph Gee, an enslaver who built a cotton plantation there in 1816.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 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
Maria Negro was accused of setting fire to her enslaver’s property in 1681 — a crime often associated with slave resistance.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
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
The area was named after Joseph Gee, an enslaver who built a cotton plantation there in 1816.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Washington was viewed both as the father of the unified nation and as a southerner, enslaver, and head of the convention that produced the slavery-endorsing Constitution.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Feb. 2025
Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
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
The area was named after Joseph Gee, an enslaver who built a cotton plantation there in 1816.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 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
Maria Negro was accused of setting fire to her enslaver’s property in 1681 — a crime often associated with slave resistance.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
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
The area was named after Joseph Gee, an enslaver who built a cotton plantation there in 1816.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Washington was viewed both as the father of the unified nation and as a southerner, enslaver, and head of the convention that produced the slavery-endorsing Constitution.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enslaver
Noun
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The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Unlike York, their fate is too well known: in 1857, seven of nine Supreme Court judges, four of them slaveholders, decreed that Dred Scott, and every other person of African descent, was not and could not be a citizen of the US.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Mar. 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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His troops and bureau agents began voter registration efforts for freedmen in June 1867.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 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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“Enslaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enslaver. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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