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Other free family members helped to get Edith Fossett and the children bought by slaveholders close by until Joseph could afford to buy their freedom.
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Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, but slaveholders in Texas, which was part of the Confederacy, were inconsistent in following it.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
Less remembered is the fact that this emancipation came with a very high price: £20 million in compensation paid to slaveholders.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2025
Carla Hayden asked that question by walking into an institution built by slaveholders and placing herself at its helm.
—Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
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Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, but slaveholders in Texas, which was part of the Confederacy, were inconsistent in following it.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
Less remembered is the fact that this emancipation came with a very high price: £20 million in compensation paid to slaveholders.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2025
Carla Hayden asked that question by walking into an institution built by slaveholders and placing herself at its helm.
—Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
Noun
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Indians captured Indian and Mexican children and sold them to Hispanic slavers.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
3 Sep. 2025
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In the eyes of slavers, the enslaved were property, like furniture, to be used and abused, not people, with parents and grandparents and siblings and cousins.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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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Edgar Allan Poe, adopted son of a Virginian enslaver; Edgar Allan Poe, who managed the sale of a human being owned by his mother-in-law.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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From the ages of 12 to about 22, Harriet Jacobs lived under the watch of her enslaver, a wealthy physician named James Norcom Sr.—
Mollie Barnes,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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In Galveston, freedmen celebrated Jubilee Day just one year later, on June 19, 1866.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
19 June 2025
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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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