as in slaveholder
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Legislators whose ancestors were large slaveholders – defined in our study as owning 16 or more slaves– have a current median net worth five times larger than their peers whose ancestors were not slaveholders: $5.6 million vs. $1.1 million.Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
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For nearly 250 years, African Americans in the United States were beholden to their White slaveholders and were often forced to live apart.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
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The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Over a quarter century later, Garza has compiled an online database with 1.1 million names from northeastern Mexico and Texas, and feels no need to distance himself from forebears who were conquistadors or slavers.Edward Rueda, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
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That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
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Other laws prevented freedmen from having free access to public facilities.Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
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