slave owner
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6.9
- noun
- /sleɪv ˈoʊnər/
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propietario de esclavos
- You're the biggest slave owner in the state.
- slave owner and abolitionist
- rights of slave owners
- white slave owners
Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner, didn't have in mind when he wrote those words the people who were slaves.
- Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner, didn't have in mind when he wrote those words the people who were slaves.
- I bet you as a slave owner, Benjamin Franklin.
- The name Constant, I think it came from a French slave owner talking about slave owners.
- But I guess the the base question to start with here is were they were all, were any slave owners
Examples
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As Lincoln explained, slavery had often been protected by the informal collaboration of slave owners.
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Because, of course, George Washington was a slave owner.
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But I was told that the first black slave owner was a black man.
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Your ancestors were slave owners.
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All slave owners, whether they asked for forgiveness or not.
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Most, if not all, of the men who organized the Mississippi Society were slave owners.
Academic text (2017) -
We cannot blame its condition on a handful of southern slave owners in a society long gone with the wind.
Academic text (1992) -
I bet you as a slave owner, Benjamin Franklin.
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They are targeting slave owners in Virginia.
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George Washington was a slave owner who inherited many enslaved people from his father.
Synonyms
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9.6
A person who buys and sells people as slaves
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7.8
A person who owns other people and forces them to work without pay
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8.2
A person who forces others to live and work without freedom
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'slave' (a person owned and forced to work) combined with 'owner' (one who possesses) yields ‘a person who owns slaves’. This straightforward noun‑noun possession pattern is common cross‑linguistically and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Slave owner is a simple literal phrase: slave (a person forced to work) and owner (someone who has or controls property). So, a slave owner means 'a person who owns and controls another person'.