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Recent Examples of slaveholder
The play sees Whelan portray Elizabeth Van Lew, Mary's former slaveholder, while Grandy plays a war reporter.
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
The truth is far more complex; my family tree includes at least one slaveholder and at least one slave.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 31 July 2025
She had been enslaved and accompanied slaveholder Larkin Lawrence to Cincinnati in 1837.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Violence was the means by which slaveholders were able to get fellow human beings to submit to servitude, and Texans were willing to use it liberally.
—David Wright Faladé, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
The truth is far more complex; my family tree includes at least one slaveholder and at least one slave.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 31 July 2025
She had been enslaved and accompanied slaveholder Larkin Lawrence to Cincinnati in 1837.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Violence was the means by which slaveholders were able to get fellow human beings to submit to servitude, and Texans were willing to use it liberally.
—David Wright Faladé, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
Noun
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In many different regions, groups seeking sanctuary from raids by slavers created new settlements during the 17th and 18th centuries.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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The faceless head of a man bobbing in the water recalls the countless Africans who perished during the perilous journey due to disease, malnourishment, and abuse, whose bodies were thrown overboard by unscrupulous ship captains and slavers to schools of sharks.—
James Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Brandon’s boss arrives at the meeting trying to stop the whole thing and the girls realize this guy is the slave driver.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
18 July 2021
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Charles Deslondes, a slave driver of Haitian descent, marshaled an insurrection against the slaver Manuel Andry, turning the tools of the plantation—the axe, the sugar cane knife—against his master.—
Kandist Mallett,
The New Republic,
18 Jan. 2021
Noun
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While all colonial enslavers were anxious about the possibility of poisoning plots in general, other, more local, even personal, concerns existed, such as an enslaver’s fear that one of his captives might try to hasten his death by putting something toxic in his food.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
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In 1787, at the Constitutional Convention, lawmakers seeking to preserve Southern political power adopted the Three-Fifths Compromise, allowing enslavers to count three-fifths of their enslaved population for purposes of taxation and representation.—
Jeffrey Bennett,
Time,
5 Jan. 2026
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National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo recasts Ishmael as a 17-year-old girl disguised as a cabin boy and Ahab as a Black freedman named Seneca, haunted by his father’s legacy of enslavement.—
Theara Coleman,
TheWeek,
6 Jan. 2026
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Gold Dollar Building Constructed in 1869 by freedman George Franklin in the then Wheatville freedom colony, the limestone and wooden structure at 2402 San Gabriel St. was a post-Civil War cultural and religious center for Austin’s Black community.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
29 July 2025
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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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