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Legislators whose ancestors were large slaveholders – defined in our study as owning 16 or more slaves– have a current median net worth five times larger than their peers whose ancestors were not slaveholders: $5.6 million vs. $1.1 million.
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Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
For nearly 250 years, African Americans in the United States were beholden to their White slaveholders and were often forced to live apart.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
Of course, the frequency of the interactions is not determinative: after all, white slaveholders in the United States constantly interacted with their black slaves.
—Graham K. Brown, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
Consider the case of Philip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War hero and a politician who was also a slaveholder.
—Laura A. MacAluso & Karim M. Tiro / Made By History, TIME, 2 July 2024
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Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
For nearly 250 years, African Americans in the United States were beholden to their White slaveholders and were often forced to live apart.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
Of course, the frequency of the interactions is not determinative: after all, white slaveholders in the United States constantly interacted with their black slaves.
—Graham K. Brown, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
Consider the case of Philip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War hero and a politician who was also a slaveholder.
—Laura A. MacAluso & Karim M. Tiro / Made By History, TIME, 2 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
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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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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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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.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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Ripley became known by enslavers as the place enslaved people went to disappear.TIME, TIME, 2 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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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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