How to Use slave owner in a Sentence

slave owner

noun

• That is, opposed to government overreach against the slave owners right to own slaves ..
  — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
• Greenberg argues that Polk’s view of the conflict grew out of his experience as a slave owner.
  — Enrique Krauze, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
• Glover was on the run for years fearing recapture by his slave owner, a man named Benammi Stone Garland.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
• Does this reader not realize that George Washington and many of the founding fathers were slave owners?
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
• She and Junius were particularly taken aback by a scene in which the enslaved character is taken offstage to be beaten by the slave owner.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Many slave owners attempted to prohibit their slaves from dancing.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
• The play tells the parallel stories of two interracial relationships — one set on a plantation in 1850 between a white male slave owner and an enslaved Black man and another set in the present.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• My colleague, Gene Demby, has written about a mostly Black school district that quietly decided to keep its name – that of a notorious slave owner.
  — Leah Donnella, NPR, 18 May 2024
• The pair recently traveled together to Grenada, where their ancestors of slave owners and the enslaved forged a terrible history.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Lincoln suggested the issue in Black communities may have deep and dark roots, a vestige of American slavery when slave owners discouraged sleep in favor of labor.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• Lincoln suggested the issue in Black communities may have deep and dark roots, a vestige of American slavery when slave owners discouraged sleep in favor of labor.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• Despite getting started late into the growing season, and having no mules or agricultural equipment, the freedmen were succeeding, shocking many of their former slave owners, Saxton reported back to headquarters in Washington, DC.
  — Essence, 18 June 2024
• For Trevelyan, her family’s historical links to slavery were unknown to her and her relatives until around 2016 after the University College London published a list of families who received compensation for being slave owners.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024