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Recent Examples of enslaver
The area was named after Joseph Gee, an enslaver who built a cotton plantation there in 1816.
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Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Washington was viewed both as the father of the unified nation and as a southerner, enslaver, and head of the convention that produced the slavery-endorsing Constitution.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Feb. 2025
Enslaved people generally bore the name of their enslavers.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
Their enslavers may be individuals, criminal rings or families, but big global companies are often complicit.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
On Hiring Day, enslavers in the U.S. tore families apart, trading individuals to form the strongest workforces for the upcoming year.
—Nyya Toussaint / Made By History, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024
The practice of slavery continued long after the abolition of the slave trade by France in 1818, with enslavers supported by the state for acts of astonishing, wanton violence.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
His family history shows how violence and rape in the era of chattel slavery can be felt over the generations, both for the family of the enslavers and for the enslaved.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
The shopkeepers, William Perry and Cephas Parker, in turn told Northup’s wife, Anne, and his attorney, Henry Bliss Northup, a relative of the former enslaver of Northup’s father.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2025
Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Washington was viewed both as the father of the unified nation and as a southerner, enslaver, and head of the convention that produced the slavery-endorsing Constitution.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Feb. 2025
Enslaved people generally bore the name of their enslavers.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
Their enslavers may be individuals, criminal rings or families, but big global companies are often complicit.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
On Hiring Day, enslavers in the U.S. tore families apart, trading individuals to form the strongest workforces for the upcoming year.
—Nyya Toussaint / Made By History, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024
The practice of slavery continued long after the abolition of the slave trade by France in 1818, with enslavers supported by the state for acts of astonishing, wanton violence.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
His family history shows how violence and rape in the era of chattel slavery can be felt over the generations, both for the family of the enslavers and for the enslaved.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
The shopkeepers, William Perry and Cephas Parker, in turn told Northup’s wife, Anne, and his attorney, Henry Bliss Northup, a relative of the former enslaver of Northup’s father.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enslaver
Noun
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Christian abolitionists and slaveholders, for example, despised and critiqued one another on Biblical terms.—
Emma Green,
The New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2025
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These agents of the slaveholders’ republic considered the African American residents of Maryland and Pennsylvania fugitives from slavery, fair game for capture and enslavement.—
Robert Colby,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Vigilance Committee subscribed to papers including the Baltimore Sun and Richmond Dispatch, which carried advertisements from slavers looking for runaways.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Jan. 2025
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After they were stolen from Sierra Leone, shipped to Cuba and put aboard the Amistad headed from Havana to a Puerto Príncipe plantation, the captives rebelled against the slavers to take control of the ship.—
Kaila Philo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Abigail Barnett and her father, James, a freedman of the Muscogee Nation, were deeded the land that would become Boley, and many other Black Creek citizens settled nearby.—
Caleb Gayle,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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But, when Dawes agents were putting together their lists, freedmen and their descendants were often kept on a separate roll, or not included at all.—
Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Enslaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enslaver. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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