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Recent Examples of slaveholder
For nearly 250 years, African Americans in the United States were beholden to their White slaveholders and were often forced to live apart.
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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
Slave traders also forced enslaved Africans onto ships bound for North America, where slaveholders compelled them to work the land.
—Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
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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
Slave traders also forced enslaved Africans onto ships bound for North America, where slaveholders compelled them to work the land.
—Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
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The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Over a quarter century later, Garza has compiled an online database with 1.1 million names from northeastern Mexico and Texas, and feels no need to distance himself from forebears who were conquistadors or slavers.Edward Rueda, NBC News, 29 Sep. 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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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
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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
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Once federal troops left the South, influential white Mississippians, realizing that they were outnumbered by freedmen, got busy intimidating, killing, gerrymandering, and otherwise cheating their way back to absolute power.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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