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In 1851, an armed mob surrounded a group of agents led by a slaveholder, Edward Gorsuch, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, who were attempting to return four fugitives to his farm, in Maryland; Gorsuch was shot and killed.
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Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Washington was a slaveholder and had fought a revolution to overthrow British tyranny.
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John Garrison Marks,
Time,
23 Jan. 2026
The talking heads, always a key ingredient to the Ken Burns Experience, go to great lengths to describe not only the greatness of men like George Washington in particular, but also the darker side of their lives, like Washington’s position as a slaveholder and land speculator.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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
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Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Washington was a slaveholder and had fought a revolution to overthrow British tyranny.
—
John Garrison Marks,
Time,
23 Jan. 2026
The talking heads, always a key ingredient to the Ken Burns Experience, go to great lengths to describe not only the greatness of men like George Washington in particular, but also the darker side of their lives, like Washington’s position as a slaveholder and land speculator.
—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
12 Nov. 2025
The play sees Whelan portray Elizabeth Van Lew, Mary's former slaveholder, while Grandy plays a war reporter.
—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
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Some of Diaz’s most stunning images hold Magellan to account, like a group of women, all dressed in black, swarming him for updates about their husbands and sons (all dead because of him), and another group of men, despondent and defeated, trapped in cages by Christian slavers.
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In many different regions, groups seeking sanctuary from raids by slavers created new settlements during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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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.
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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.
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And as Roman emperors compelled gladiators to fight to their deaths for public entertainment, the historian Gerald Horne writes that white enslavers arranged boxing matches between enslaved Black people, both for their own amusement and to stoke divisions among captives.
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Left to hire out his time while his enslaver vacationed in Bermuda, Grimes went to the Savannah harbor seeking work.
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These were to control the lives and control the movements, control any attempt at owning property, any attempt at physical liberty, really, for the freedmen.
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The island, about the size of Chicago, was once used by British slave traders sending enslaved Africans to the Americas and later became a haven for freedmen and freedwomen.
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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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