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This type of education was unusual at the time, as enslavers were often worried that literacy would prompt enslaved individuals to read about freedom and rebel, according to the Encyclopedia Virginia.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Ripley became known by enslavers as the place enslaved people went to disappear.
—TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium basketball arena is in no way connected to the enslavers, but the family was trustees and donors to the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where a road on campus remains shamefully named after them.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Several Austin place names have been called into question because their namesakes were racists, enslavers or instigators of ethnic cleansing.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
His youngest daughter, Julia, married a physician and enslaver named Luke P. Blackburn.
—TIME, 4 May 2024
In 1863, the U.S. government was paying enslavers like Campbell up to $300 for each man allowed to enlist.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
These houses are tiny and were constructed in a way in which they could be easily taken apart and loaded onto carts, should the residents be forced out by their former enslavers.
—Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
In January 1864, Smalls returned to his hometown and used the money he’d been awarded for turning over the Planter to buy his enslaver’s mansion.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Ripley became known by enslavers as the place enslaved people went to disappear.
—TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium basketball arena is in no way connected to the enslavers, but the family was trustees and donors to the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where a road on campus remains shamefully named after them.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Several Austin place names have been called into question because their namesakes were racists, enslavers or instigators of ethnic cleansing.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
His youngest daughter, Julia, married a physician and enslaver named Luke P. Blackburn.
—TIME, 4 May 2024
In 1863, the U.S. government was paying enslavers like Campbell up to $300 for each man allowed to enlist.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
These houses are tiny and were constructed in a way in which they could be easily taken apart and loaded onto carts, should the residents be forced out by their former enslavers.
—Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
In January 1864, Smalls returned to his hometown and used the money he’d been awarded for turning over the Planter to buy his enslaver’s mansion.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enslaver
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Numerous schools have also been named after Tubman, including in 2022 when an elementary school in Chicago was renamed after the Chicago Sun-Times reported that 30 schools in the area were named after people with racist views and slaveholders.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
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Several scholars and students think that slave owners freed their slaves out of pure generosity, embracing the idea that enslaved people were part of the family of slaveholders, and that the color line didn’t exist in countries such as Brazil.Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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At times, slavers bypassed tricks altogether, arriving under the cover of night to ambush a village and kidnap its inhabitants.Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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As our protagonist makes his flight from bondage along the Mississippi River, dodging slavers, sailing alongside an unrecognizable Huck, indignities continue to accumulate, hardening James, until violent delights culminate in delightfully violent ends.The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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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 31 Dec. 2024.
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