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slaveholder

/sleyv-hohl-der/US // ˈsleɪvˌhoʊl dər //UK // (ˈsleɪvˌhəʊldə) //

奴隶主,奴仆

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an owner of enslaved people in the institution of chattel slavery.

Examples

  • It doesn’t have to be race as we have inherited it from long dead elite slaveholders.

  • What I would grant to the devil himself, I would not withhold even from the slaveholder—his due.

  • Almost the first Northern men whom the slaveholder has learned to respect!

  • Not a solitary slaveholder will I allow to enjoy repose on any other condition than instantly ceasing to be one.

  • So reads the Mosaic code, and by it every American Slaveholder is convicted of a capital crime.

  • Now, sir, what right does this take away from any slaveholder?