What is another word for slave owner?

Pronunciation: [slˈe͡ɪv ˈə͡ʊnə] (IPA)

There are numerous synonyms for the term "slave owner." Some of the common synonyms include a slave master, enslaver, plantation owner, overseer, and slaveholder. These terms describe individuals who owned and controlled the lives of enslaved people during the period of slavery in different parts of the world. Though each term denotes the same thing, each term precisely focuses on the owner's specific role, whether the plantation owner or overseer supervising the slaves' work or a slave master with complete control over their lives. The use of these synonyms is important to understand the historical context of the cruel, inhumane practice of slavery and the individuals who played a significant part in maintaining the system.

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What are the hypernyms for Slave owner?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Slave owner?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for slave owner (as nouns)

Famous quotes with Slave owner

  • If a Southerner came across from Virginia to Pennsylvania and saw a black man that he thought he would like to have as a slave, he had to say, 'Well, that’s my runaway slave', and this runaway slave would then be arrested and confined, and then there would be a hearing before a federal commissioner. And the would-be slave owner could summon witnesses—as many as he wanted. The man accused of being a slave could summon no witnesses, had no counsel. And if the federal commissioner decided he was a slave, he was paid $10, and if he decided he was a free man, he was paid $5. It’s hard to imagine any law passed in either Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia that was more inconsistent with the principles of civil liberty than the Fugitive Slave Act.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • Now there's a little story to that. Chief Justice Taney, in the decision—which said that the Missouri Compromise restriction of slavery in 1820 and any other one, was unconstitutional—said that there was no power in the Congress to forbid slavery in the territories. And he added as a kind of obiter dictum that the only power of Congress over slavery in the territories was the power coupled with the duty of protecting the owner and his rights. Now the seven states of the Deep South interpreted that to mean that the police power of the federal government had to guarantee the integrity of the property of any slave owner going into any United States territory.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • But bear this in mind: if this demand had been acceded to, that meant that every territory in the United States which would become a state—and remember, there were then 33 states and there would be 50 states eventually—but every other state would become a slave state. Because if one slave owner went to North Dakota with his slave, the federal police power would follow him to make sure that he could hold that slave securely in that place.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • And Lincoln said that if you believe in the Fugitive Slave Act being required by Article IV, you must also believe that the protection of the slave owner and the territories deserves federal protection; the two arguments were perfectly parallel. Douglas said it didn’t matter how the Supreme Court in the abstract decided the question of slavery in the territories; if the slave owner went to the territory, he had to get local regulations to protect his property.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • Much was made by abolitionists that the King James version of the Bible didn't use the word , but, instead, . This meant, in their minds, that God didn't approve of slavery. But that argument was linguistic at best. Slavery was codified and even sanctified in the tenth commandment, throwing slaves (and wives) in with other property belonging to one's neighbor that one must not covet. The Bible even regulated--as opposed to banning outright--the killing of slaves, stating that if a slave were beaten to death, the slave owner should be punished (though not killed himself, as would be his fate were he to kill a freeman), but if the slave didn't die until a day or two after the beating, the slave owner "shall not be punished, for he [the slave] his money."
    Derrick Jensen

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