How to Use slave owner in a Sentence

slave owner

noun
  • Since the state had few slave owners, most of that sum had to be raised from taxes on land and buildings.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The post was about a Juneteenth event that portrayed slave owners as refugees. County leaders have spent the subsequent years studying how leaders at other former plantations have confronted the past.
    — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Tubman suffered a head injury as a child when a slave owner trying to catch a runaway hit her in the head with a metal bar.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Many slave owners attempted to prohibit their slaves from dancing.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Incidents like this caused slave owners to link conjure with rebellion against slavery.
    — Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The horses were taught how to navigate the mountainous terrain, how to go where no slave owner could follow.
    — Bitter Kalli august 19, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers.
    — Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • Most descendants of slave owners will attempt to justify the actions of their ancestors.
    — Gary Franks, Boston Herald, 21 June 2024
  • This piano was stolen from the Charles family by their ancestor’s slave owners, the Sutters.
    — Malik William, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024
  • DiCaprio starred in the film as the sociopathic slave owner Calvin Candie.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In the post-slavery period, former slave owners fought to prevent racial integration.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Does this reader not realize that George Washington and many of the founding fathers were slave owners?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Saunt does an incredible job of linking northern financiers to southern slave owners and both to the process of Indian removal.
    — David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
  • He’s being tasked with verbally confronting the oppressors and slave owners and convincing them to let the Jewish people go.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
  • John Tharp, a wealthy planter who owned most of the estates, was the largest slave owner on the island, at one point in the early 1800s possessing more than two thousand people.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Washington gave prior slave owners and like-minded folks the freedom to make Jim Crow – racial discrimination and segregation – the de facto law of the land in the South.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
  • In 1918, it was initially named for Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general and slave owner.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 10 June 2025
  • Among some white Southerners, the horrors of slavery had long gone minimized by a Lost Cause narrative of northern aggression and benevolent slave owners.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 16 June 2023
  • It was originally named for Maxwell Chambers, a slave owner who left the school $260,000 at the time of his death in 1855.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This reporter never thought that their humble Colombian immigrant grandmother, who sewed garments in New York sweatshops, could have been three and four generations removed from slave owners.
    — Edward Rueda, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The Amhara generally revere him as a national hero, but many Oromo, Somalis, and Tigrayans see him as an imperialist slave owner and land grabber.
    — Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Several scholars and students think that slave owners freed their slaves out of pure generosity, embracing the idea that enslaved people were part of the family of slaveholders, and that the color line didn’t exist in countries such as Brazil.
    — Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 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
  • The comedy will follow an African-American intern who plays a slave actor at a local history museum who discovers that the ancestors of his white girlfriend were slave owners of some of his relatives.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Far too many people overlook this distinction and end up like the German Christians and the antebellum slave owners, trying to find a heavenly origin for things that have nothing to do with the character of their God.
    — B.g. White, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2025

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