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Recent Examples of slaveholder
Connecting the wealth of a slaveholder in the 1860s to today’s economic conditions is not easy.
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Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
Legislators whose ancestors were large slaveholders – defined in our study as owning 16 or more slaves– have a current median net worth five times larger than their peers whose ancestors were not slaveholders: $5.6 million vs. $1.1 million.
—Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
For nearly 250 years, African Americans in the United States were beholden to their White slaveholders and were often forced to live apart.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
Of course, the frequency of the interactions is not determinative: after all, white slaveholders in the United States constantly interacted with their black slaves.
—Graham K. Brown, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
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Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
Legislators whose ancestors were large slaveholders – defined in our study as owning 16 or more slaves– have a current median net worth five times larger than their peers whose ancestors were not slaveholders: $5.6 million vs. $1.1 million.
—Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
For nearly 250 years, African Americans in the United States were beholden to their White slaveholders and were often forced to live apart.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
Of course, the frequency of the interactions is not determinative: after all, white slaveholders in the United States constantly interacted with their black slaves.
—Graham K. Brown, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaveholder
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Information could also come from unexpected sources: when slavers sought a Philadelphia warrant to make arrests in Lancaster County, the son of the judge who issued the warrant alerted Still, who then warned the targets.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Jan. 2025
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Yes, Aida is an old-fashioned blockbuster, a tale of bloodthirsty slavers, desert vendettas, and love amid the pyramids.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The woman gives the girls two vials of concoctions, one for the zombie and one for the slave driver.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
18 July 2021
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Brandon’s boss arrives at the meeting trying to stop the whole thing and the girls realize this guy is the slave driver.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
18 July 2021
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What these founders knew about the weather ruled their daily paths as farmers, politicians and enslavers.—
Sara Georgini,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Jan. 2025
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Félicité encouraged the entire country to finally savor the soup they had long been forbidden by their enslavers to enjoy.—
Nyya Toussaint / Made by History,
TIME,
31 Dec. 2024
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Abigail Barnett and her father, James, a freedman of the Muscogee Nation, were deeded the land that would become Boley, and many other Black Creek citizens settled nearby.—
Caleb Gayle,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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But, when Dawes agents were putting together their lists, freedmen and their descendants were often kept on a separate roll, or not included at all.—
Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
20 Nov. 2024
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