enslaver
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enslavers
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Her enslaver, Philemon T. Hambleton—who may well have been her biological father—refused to release her from servitude.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
“In the 1840s and 1850s, if an enslaver was to free his enslaved population, he would immediately have to send them out of state, so freedom was equated to expulsion from the state.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2023
That was as near as I dared to come to asking what had happened to my would-be enslaver.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
I found that there were more than just a few enslavers who questioned the system.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025
At a young age, she was sold and purchased by enslavers, developing skills in herbal medicine and midwifery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
The book combines historical narrative with illustrations depicting African and African American women rising up against their enslavers, often at the cost of their own lives.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
“White enslavers feared that religion, which was often used to quell slave resistance, could incite the exact opposite if practiced without observance.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2023
Their fate may fill us with pity and our admiration for those who fought in a losing cause may prejudice us against their enslavers.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
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