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
  • To the slaveholders, this made Voodoo evil.
    — Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Some are slaveholders, others sip blood and a few jump backward like nobody’s business.
    — Ashley Braun, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
  • Walsh appears to think this lets American slaveholders off the hook.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Across much of the country to remove the names of people from monuments and things who were slaveholders.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • People who were fleeing slavery knew where to look for the quilts, but slaveholders never learned about them and the secret codes.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • As a child, her labor was rented out by slaveholder Edward Brodess.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2019
  • That ethical sleight of hand has been employed for other presidents who were slaveholders as well.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The descendants acknowledge that their ancestor was from the South and was a slaveholder.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 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
  • At these gatherings, attendees mocked the slaveholders’ attire with their own costuming.
    — Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Samuel and other ancestors also had been listed in the property records of a Georgia slaveholder.
    — al, 20 June 2021
  • Essentially, the nation worked for slaveholders, even to the point of overruling Northern states’ rights.
    — Caleb McDaniel, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • When the Americanized banjo appear, it is owned by a white slaveholder, Hero's master.
    — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 13 June 2018
  • Washington was a slaveholder and had fought a revolution to overthrow British tyranny.
    — John Garrison Marks, Time, 23 Jan. 2026
  • On the debit side, Sarastro is a slaveholder and male supremacist with the kidnapping of an under-age princess to answer for.
    — airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Like the president, Thompson was a Southern slaveholder.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • All fell victim to the armed forces of the slaveholders’ republic and to the wartime slave trade, embodying the lengths to which Rebels would go to keep emancipation at bay.
    — Robert Colby, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • For me, however, this is a living, breathing portrait of what life must have been like for my ancestors in a country where their children could be taken at the slaveholder’s whim.
    — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
  • Connecting the wealth of a slaveholder in the 1860s to today’s economic conditions is not easy.
    — Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Belle Boyd was just a normal woman living the life of a slaveholder’s daughter in Martinsburg, Virginia.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 9 May 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
  • An homage to millions of anonymous victims, the work implicitly rebukes the nearby figurative sculptures of slaveholders.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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