slaveholder
/sleyv-hohl-der/US // ˈsleɪvˌhoʊl dər //UK // (ˈsleɪvˌhəʊldə) //
奴隶主,奴仆
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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?
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