slave owner

noun

variants or less commonly slaveowner

ˈslāv-ˌō-nər

plural slave owners also slaveowners

: someone who holds one or more people involuntarily and under threat of violence within a system of chattel slavery : slaveholder

As the fugitive slave and later abolitionist James W. C. Pennington noted, every change in the financial, social, and personal affairs of a slave owner and his or her children could have traumatic consequences for enslaved people.—

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

… as the debate about reparations for slavery intensifies, it is important to remember that slaveowners, far more than enslaved people, were always the primary beneficiaries of public largess.—

Tera W. Hunter

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This piano was stolen from the Charles family by their ancestor’s slave owners, the Sutters. —

Malik William, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024 This reporter never thought that their humble Colombian immigrant grandmother, who sewed garments in New York sweatshops, could have been three and four generations removed from slave owners. —

Edward Rueda, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024 He’s being tasked with verbally confronting the oppressors and slave owners and convincing them to let the Jewish people go. —

Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024 Last summer, descendants of enslaved Africans and descendants of the slave owner who bankrolled their voyage to America sat down together in a historic meeting to talk about reconciliation, after years of effort to set up a meeting. —

CBS News, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for slave owner