slave owner


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Noun1.slave owner - someone who holds slavesslave owner - someone who holds slaves    
holder - a person who holds something; "they held two hostages"; "he holds the trophy"; "she holds a United States passport"
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Being a slave owner and like other slave owners a politician, he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause.
The slave owner and his sons had mastered no special industry.
Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter; what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change!
"Nathan Bedford Forrest was a slave owner and a racist, and no law should force us to honor him," (https://twitter.com/MayorBriley/status/1150052163672059905) Nashville Mayor David Briley said.
His slave owner's wife taught him to read before he escaped as a young man, and the only weapon he had against racism were words, both written and spoken.
The day comes when Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House where the slave owner lives.
Jerry Toner's short book, The Roman Guide to Slave Management: A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx (2014, Overlook Press, 216 pp., ISBN 978-1-4683-1172-3) takes a tongue-in-cheek approach in its illustration of the life of a fictitious nobleman and slave owner. Toner, a University of Cambridge Classicist, received endorsement for the book cover and a foreword by no less than Mary Beard, the pre-eminent British Classicist and public face of ancient history.
The fifth President of the United States was also a slave owner. During his lifetime he managed to acquire a large plantation that depended upon the labor of many slaves.
In the speech, Lynch (A British slave owner in West Indies) propagated to his fellow slaveholders ways to maintain their slaves for a lifetime.
In the highly-acclaimed drama, which bagged a Golden Globe and has earned nine Oscar nominations, Cumberbatch plays the role of plantation owner and slave owner.
* Why doesn't Slave Owner 1 want to kill the slaves when he and the others catch the slaves reading?
6 JEFFERSON IN PARIS (1995) This film shows the relationship between Thomas Jefferson, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a slave owner, and Sally Hemings, a black slave.