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Recent Examples of slaveholder
And there is plenty of information about the Shawnee mission’s founder, Methodist minister Thomas Johnson, a slaveholder from Virginia.
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Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
Monday's announcement is the latest push to honor Tubman on the currency and remove Jackson, the country's seventh president and a slaveholder.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
Academic research on the mindset of modern slaveholders is limited.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
And so in the case of slavery, that meant sometimes women slaveholders who were very violent and enacted their own forms of punishment and retribution against enslaved people.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
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Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
Monday's announcement is the latest push to honor Tubman on the currency and remove Jackson, the country's seventh president and a slaveholder.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
Academic research on the mindset of modern slaveholders is limited.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
And so in the case of slavery, that meant sometimes women slaveholders who were very violent and enacted their own forms of punishment and retribution against enslaved people.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
Noun
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Three-quarters of officers, from both the northern and southern parts of the US, used enslaved servants during their military careers, with southern slavers especially determined to expand slavery within the Army (as elsewhere).—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Mar. 2025
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An exception was post-apartheid South Africa, where Jaco Boshoff, a researcher at the Iziko Museums, was looking for a Dutch slaver called the Meermin.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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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Miller traces how enslaved Africans were sometimes forced to dress in luxurious garb by their enslavers, turning them into walking advertisements of their owners' wealth.—
Michel Martin,
NPR,
5 May 2025
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Booker, who is Black and reflected on ancestors who were both enslaved or enslavers in his speech, was himself mindful of the historical relevance.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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His troops and bureau agents began voter registration efforts for freedmen in June 1867.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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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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“Slaveholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaveholder. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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