How to Use slaveholder in a Sentence

slaveholder

noun

• All of those slaves, and all of those slaveholders, are long gone.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2019
• The origin is that the Founders agreed to create it in part to placate the demands of slaveholders.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Aug. 2017
• The first woman ever to serve in the Senate was a former slaveholder.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
• The fifth-graders who are trying to change the park’s name also argue Douglas was a slaveholder.
  — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• Across much of the country to remove the names of people from monuments and things who were slaveholders.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• Born into slavery in the late 1700s to a Black mother and a white slaveholder, Beckwourth moved to St. Louis with his father — who freed him as an adult.
  — Tiffany Walden, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2023
• As a child, her labor was rented out by slaveholder Edward Brodess.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2019
• Washington, the first president of the U.S., was an active slaveholder for 56 years.
  — oregonlive, 19 June 2020
• The descendants acknowledge that their ancestor was from the South and was a slaveholder.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• Some are slaveholders, others sip blood and a few jump backward like nobody’s business.
  — Ashley Braun, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
• What’s more, the DNA of enslaved Black people and white slaveholders is closely intertwined.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Calhoun was a slaveholder and espoused pro-slavery views.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2020
• Slave traders also forced enslaved Africans onto ships bound for North America, where slaveholders compelled them to work the land.
  — Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
• The law was crafted by a slaveholder, Henry Clay, who is so renowned as one of America’s greatest statesmen that 16 counties across the country are named for him.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
• The Episcopal Diocese of Texas acknowledges that its first bishop in 1859 was a slaveholder.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
• One feature is a ceremony that gives the descendants of slaveholders the chance to apologize to the descendants of slaves.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Belle Boyd was just a normal woman living the life of a slaveholder’s daughter in Martinsburg, Virginia.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017
• Essentially, the nation worked for slaveholders, even to the point of overruling Northern states’ rights.
  — Caleb McDaniel, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• Hamilton wrote about that vigil in Slate last month, calling UVa a deeply imperfect place, founded by a slaveholder and built by slave labor.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
• Last spring, Harvard Law School agreed to redesign its insignia, which had been modeled on a slaveholder family crest.
  — Laura Ly, CNN, 9 May 2017
• They were slaveholders, and no doubt they should be remembered and criticized for that grievous misdeed.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
• Two years ago, the museum relocated a bust of its founder, Hans Sloane, a slaveholder, to a vitrine exploring Britain and slavery.
  — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• That ethical sleight of hand has been employed for other presidents who were slaveholders as well.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• When the Americanized banjo appear, it is owned by a white slaveholder, Hero's master.
  — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 13 June 2018
• As Huang reveals, the twins were much more than a freak show spectacle — strivers, showmen and slaveholders who settled in rural North Carolina, country squires who loved to hunt and fish.
  — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• Its protagonist, Annis, is an enslaved girl whose mother tries to shield her from the predations of the slaveholder who fathered her.
  — Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Paul is unduly gentle on this point, seeing Marshall as a product of his time, and more benign than many Virginia slaveholders.
  — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• Her likeness would either replace or join the one of Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh U.S. president and a slaveholder.
  — Monica Williams, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• In Smith’s telling, not only are the slaves preferred by the emperor to the slaveholder, but the assessment of the punishment communicates the viciousness of the slavery system.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• The series found that Hostin's mother's family were predominantly Spanish, and were slaveholders.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024