slaveholder
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- noun
- /ˈsleɪvˌhoʊldər/
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esclavista
- The historian focused on the lives of slaves and their slaveholders during the Civil War.
- slaves and slaveholders
- slaveholders' rights
- large slaveholders
She had, my goodness, she had noble and gentle and kind slaveholders.
- She had, my goodness, she had noble and gentle and kind slaveholders.
- No union with the slaveholder pull out from any complicity with slavery.
Examples
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Other Virginian peers sent their sons to William and Mary, and reared them to be slaveholders in their turn.
Academic text (2001) -
The slaves of Granville County were subject to the despotic feudal control of slaveholders on their home plantations.
Academic text (2017) -
Of course, in the case of the slaveholder, there were many instances where the owner was actually both father and master.
Academic text (2017) -
Robert Carter sent his children north so they would learn to be anything but slaveholders.
Academic text (2001) -
African people who ran off from the slaveholders hooked up with them, married, and had children.
Fiction book (1996) -
The next thing he knew, he was purchased by an Alabama slaveholder from Pickensville, Alabama.
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Washington, a Virginian and slaveholder, would become the father of the Confederacy.
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With a few minor limitations, slaveholders had wide jurisdiction over slaves' bodies and social lives.
Academic text (2017) -
George Washington (1732-1799), soldier, slaveholder, and statesman, is undoubtedly an American hero.
Academic text (1997) -
John Dickinson, who compared oppressive taxes with slavery, was Philadelphia's largest slaveholder.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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6.9
Someone who keeps another person as property and forces them to work for no pay
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9.6
A person who buys and sells people as slaves
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8.2
A person who forces others to live and work without freedom
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word slaveholder joins slave and holder. The word slave comes from the name of the Slavic people because many Slavs were forced into slavery long ago, and the part holder comes from hold, meaning 'to keep', as in a 'cupholder' that holds a cup. So a slaveholder is someone who 'keeps' or owns slaves.