enslaver
Americannoun
plural
enslaversOther Word Forms
- enslavery noun
Example Sentences
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He was also an enslaver, blind, as so many others, to his own hypocrisies.
From Slate • May 9, 2025
It was from the wife of his former enslaver.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
His enslaver, David Logue, was almost certainly his father.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
Most likely Pareja was the son of an enslaved woman and a white Spaniard father, perhaps her enslaver.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
Hayden imagined the enslaved, during the Middle Passage, from the perspective of the enslavers—a mind-trip for me, in and of itself; why should the enslaver be allowed to speak?
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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