enslaver
Americannoun
plural
enslaversOther Word Forms
- enslavery noun
Example Sentences
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A schoolkid asking an A.I. program for help with an essay about Washington will probably get highlights of the man’s consequential life, the first-in-war, first-in-peace stuff, and perhaps learn that he was an enslaver who, like the other founders, failed to end the vile institution of human bondage.
From Slate
He was also an enslaver, blind, as so many others, to his own hypocrisies.
From Slate
His enslaver, David Logue, was almost certainly his father.
From Scientific American
It was from the wife of his former enslaver.
From Scientific American
He was also an enslaver and deeply contemptuous of the abolitionist movement in both the United States and the United Kingdom, where he spent considerable time preparing his landmark publication, “The Birds of America,” published between 1827 and 1838.
From Washington Post
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