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

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