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Recent Examples of enslaver
These houses are tiny and were constructed in a way in which they could be easily taken apart and loaded onto carts, should the residents be forced out by their former enslavers.
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Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
In January 1864, Smalls returned to his hometown and used the money he’d been awarded for turning over the Planter to buy his enslaver’s mansion.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Many other freedmen on the South Carolina Sea Islands refused to work for their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
The trains, audible in the background, run on rails that enslaved people built—only for enslavers to use those very tracks to ship Black people off like cargo, tearing families apart.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
Promising freedom to Black men and women only after a period of time also permitted enslavers to sneak in stipulations that led to further delays.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Many of them were enslavers, although some were the first in the world to legally abolish African slavery.
—Gordon S. Wood, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
Howard suggested that the freedmen could work for the planters, urging them to lay aside bitter feelings and reconcile with their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
By the following decade, copper exports to West Africa amounted to 20 tons annually, shipped by the Royal African Company as well as by private enslavers.
—Corinne Fowler / Made By History, TIME, 17 June 2024
Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
In January 1864, Smalls returned to his hometown and used the money he’d been awarded for turning over the Planter to buy his enslaver’s mansion.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Many other freedmen on the South Carolina Sea Islands refused to work for their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
The trains, audible in the background, run on rails that enslaved people built—only for enslavers to use those very tracks to ship Black people off like cargo, tearing families apart.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
Promising freedom to Black men and women only after a period of time also permitted enslavers to sneak in stipulations that led to further delays.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Many of them were enslavers, although some were the first in the world to legally abolish African slavery.
—Gordon S. Wood, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
Howard suggested that the freedmen could work for the planters, urging them to lay aside bitter feelings and reconcile with their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
By the following decade, copper exports to West Africa amounted to 20 tons annually, shipped by the Royal African Company as well as by private enslavers.
—Corinne Fowler / Made By History, TIME, 17 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enslaver
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Several scholars and students think that slave owners freed their slaves out of pure generosity, embracing the idea that enslaved people were part of the family of slaveholders, and that the color line didn’t exist in countries such as Brazil.Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Southern slaveholders and their allies won the White House until Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 victory.Doug Melville, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Over a quarter century later, Garza has compiled an online database with 1.1 million names from northeastern Mexico and Texas, and feels no need to distance himself from forebears who were conquistadors or slavers.Edward Rueda, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
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Once federal troops left the South, influential white Mississippians, realizing that they were outnumbered by freedmen, got busy intimidating, killing, gerrymandering, and otherwise cheating their way back to absolute power.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
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“Enslaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enslaver. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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