slaveholder
noun
an owner of enslaved people in the institution of chattel slavery.
slaveholding
-
a word derived from
slaveholder.
Example Sentences
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Mainstream contemporary historians view the Constitution as a compromise between free and slaveholding states.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
But even aside from its profitability, many whites in the Antebellum South had come to see slaveholding not as a necessary evil, to be accepted apologetically, but as a positive moral good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
But one day, a man brings news that Maram is alive in a village near Gorée, the notorious slaveholding island.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
At Peterboro, she met other abolitionists, including the Grimké sisters, Sarah and Angelina, daughters of a South Carolina slaveholding family.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
