slave owner
noun
variants
or less commonly slaveowner
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
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
Tera W. HunterExamples of slave owner in a Sentence
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My colleague, Gene Demby, has written about a mostly Black school district that quietly decided to keep its name – that of a notorious slave owner.
—Leah Donnella, NPR, 18 May 2024
That is, opposed to government overreach against the slave owners right to own slaves ..
—For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
Civil Rights groups are calling on the Maryland state government to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge because Key was reportedly a slave owner.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 12 Apr. 2024
While many of Finding Your Roots' guests have been grateful, a few have been less-than-enthused by the show's reveals, including Ben Affleck, who requested that one detail — the discovery he was descended from slave owners — be omitted from his episode in the third season.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
Key, after whom the bridge was named, was also an advisor to Andrew Jackson, served as the District Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1833 to 1841, and was a slave owner, according to the National Park Service.
—Abc News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
In the past two decades, prominent universities including Harvard, Yale, Brown and the University of Virginia have issued extensive mea culpas describing their historical involvement with the slave trade and slave owners.
—Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
Key, after whom the bridge was named, was also an advisor to Andrew Jackson, served as the district attorney for the District of Columbia from 1833 to 1841, and was a slave owner, according to the NPS.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
Jones' research will focus on the sometimes violent response of slave owners and other whites when enslaved people in America resisted or escaped during the 1700s and 1800s.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2024
Leah Donnella, NPR, 18 May 2024
That is, opposed to government overreach against the slave owners right to own slaves ..
—For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
Civil Rights groups are calling on the Maryland state government to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge because Key was reportedly a slave owner.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 12 Apr. 2024
While many of Finding Your Roots' guests have been grateful, a few have been less-than-enthused by the show's reveals, including Ben Affleck, who requested that one detail — the discovery he was descended from slave owners — be omitted from his episode in the third season.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
Key, after whom the bridge was named, was also an advisor to Andrew Jackson, served as the District Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1833 to 1841, and was a slave owner, according to the National Park Service.
—Abc News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
In the past two decades, prominent universities including Harvard, Yale, Brown and the University of Virginia have issued extensive mea culpas describing their historical involvement with the slave trade and slave owners.
—Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
Key, after whom the bridge was named, was also an advisor to Andrew Jackson, served as the district attorney for the District of Columbia from 1833 to 1841, and was a slave owner, according to the NPS.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
Jones' research will focus on the sometimes violent response of slave owners and other whites when enslaved people in America resisted or escaped during the 1700s and 1800s.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2024
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“Slave owner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave%20owner. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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