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Recent Examples of slaveholder
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.
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Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2025
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
The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.
—Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Unlike York, their fate is too well known: in 1857, seven of nine Supreme Court judges, four of them slaveholders, decreed that Dred Scott, and every other person of African descent, was not and could not be a citizen of the US.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Mar. 2025
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Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2025
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
The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.
—Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Unlike York, their fate is too well known: in 1857, seven of nine Supreme Court judges, four of them slaveholders, decreed that Dred Scott, and every other person of African descent, was not and could not be a citizen of the US.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
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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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The woman gives the girls two vials of concoctions, one for the zombie and one for the slave driver.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
18 July 2021
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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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The broader Healing History initiative brought together descendants of enslavers and the enslaved in dialogue to practice honest, often difficult conversation.—
Brianna Scott,
NPR,
19 June 2025
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Bader-King pointed out that both homes were built by enslaved people and both patriarchs were enslavers.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
4 Mar. 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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The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages.—
Timothy Welbeck,
The Conversation,
16 June 2025
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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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