enslaver
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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
His enslaver, David Logue, was almost certainly his father.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
Hemings’s literacy — in Palladian architecture, in fine woodworking, and in reading and writing — meant his work at Poplar Forest could be documented on paper for his enslaver.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
If he hated, he hated because it was human for the enslaved to hate the enslaver, natural as Prometheus hating the birds.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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
Among the show’s many examples of portraiture are works in which Black figures are shown alongside their white enslavers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Their shades cannot start to thy shouts of to-day,— Nor the steps of enslavers and chain-kissing slaves Be stamped in the turf o'er their fetterless clay.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
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