enslaver

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Recent Examples on the Web In January 1864, Smalls returned to his hometown and used the money he’d been awarded for turning over the Planter to buy his enslaver’s mansion. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024 Many other freedmen on the South Carolina Sea Islands refused to work for their former enslavers. Essence, 18 June 2024 The trains, audible in the background, run on rails that enslaved people built—only for enslavers to use those very tracks to ship Black people off like cargo, tearing families apart. Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024 Promising freedom to Black men and women only after a period of time also permitted enslavers to sneak in stipulations that led to further delays. Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024 Many of them were enslavers, although some were the first in the world to legally abolish African slavery. Gordon S. Wood, Washington Post, 2 July 2024 Howard suggested that the freedmen could work for the planters, urging them to lay aside bitter feelings and reconcile with their former enslavers. Essence, 18 June 2024 By the following decade, copper exports to West Africa amounted to 20 tons annually, shipped by the Royal African Company as well as by private enslavers. Corinne Fowler / Made By History, TIME, 17 June 2024 Free Haitians were forced to pay billions of dollars in today’s money to their former enslavers as reparations at the point of a gun. Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enslaver
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Other laws prevented freedmen from having free access to public facilities.
    Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024

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“Enslaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enslaver. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.

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