How to Use slave owner in a Sentence

slave owner

noun

• That is, opposed to government overreach against the slave owners right to own slaves ..
  — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
• Greenberg argues that Polk’s view of the conflict grew out of his experience as a slave owner.
  — Enrique Krauze, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
• Glover was on the run for years fearing recapture by his slave owner, a man named Benammi Stone Garland.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
• Does this reader not realize that George Washington and many of the founding fathers were slave owners?
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
• She and Junius were particularly taken aback by a scene in which the enslaved character is taken offstage to be beaten by the slave owner.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Many slave owners attempted to prohibit their slaves from dancing.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
• The play tells the parallel stories of two interracial relationships — one set on a plantation in 1850 between a white male slave owner and an enslaved Black man and another set in the present.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• My colleague, Gene Demby, has written about a mostly Black school district that quietly decided to keep its name – that of a notorious slave owner.
  — Leah Donnella, NPR, 18 May 2024
• The pair recently traveled together to Grenada, where their ancestors of slave owners and the enslaved forged a terrible history.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Lincoln suggested the issue in Black communities may have deep and dark roots, a vestige of American slavery when slave owners discouraged sleep in favor of labor.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• Lincoln suggested the issue in Black communities may have deep and dark roots, a vestige of American slavery when slave owners discouraged sleep in favor of labor.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• For Trevelyan, her family’s historical links to slavery were unknown to her and her relatives until around 2016 after the University College London published a list of families who received compensation for being slave owners.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024