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Recent Examples of enslaver
In the 19th century, the French demanded compensation for the former enslavers of the Haitian people, rather than the other way around.
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Marlene L. Daut, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
Miller traces how enslaved Africans were sometimes forced to dress in luxurious garb by their enslavers, turning them into walking advertisements of their owners' wealth.
—Michel Martin, NPR, 5 May 2025
Booker, who is Black and reflected on ancestors who were both enslaved or enslavers in his speech, was himself mindful of the historical relevance.
—Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
Starting in the late 17th century, enslavers in Charleston, South Carolina, began hiring out their enslaved laborers to earn some extra money.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
Ben Ross had originally worked as a timber foreman under his enslaver, Anthony Thompson, a wealthy landowner in the county.
—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
Marlene L. Daut, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
Miller traces how enslaved Africans were sometimes forced to dress in luxurious garb by their enslavers, turning them into walking advertisements of their owners' wealth.
—Michel Martin, NPR, 5 May 2025
Booker, who is Black and reflected on ancestors who were both enslaved or enslavers in his speech, was himself mindful of the historical relevance.
—Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
Starting in the late 17th century, enslavers in Charleston, South Carolina, began hiring out their enslaved laborers to earn some extra money.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
Ben Ross had originally worked as a timber foreman under his enslaver, Anthony Thompson, a wealthy landowner in the county.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enslaver
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Three years after Troost Avenue business owner Chris Goode proposed the name change to rid the 11-mile arterial street of its association to 19th Century slaveholder Benoist Troost, Goode once again left City Hall disappointed on Tuesday.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
6 May 2025
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Assimilation, whether forced or chosen, was never fully achieved in the eyes of colonizers or slaveholders, because there was always a trace of African heritage or, in more recent times, urban cultural identity, woven in to subvert and complicate the idea of complete assimilation.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
30 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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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 25 May. 2025.
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