enslaver
One who subjugates
An enslaver is a person who holds others in slavery—who claims ownership over human beings and compels their labor.
The term has gained currency in historical writing as a more direct alternative to "slaveholder" or "slave owner," emphasizing the active role in subjugation: Thomas Jefferson was an enslaver who held over six hundred people in bondage over his lifetime.
Agricultural estate proprietor
- bondsmanOne who posts bail
- captorOne who seizes another
- kidnapperOne who seizes people
- oppressorOne who dominates cruelly
tyrant · despot · subjugator · colonizer · taskmaster · overseer · exploiter · abductor
Involuntary subjugation to another
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- human traffickingCriminal trade in people
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- plantation systemLabor-intensive colonial farming model
Middle Passage · abolition · emancipation · manumission · auction block · indentured servitude · debt bondage · captivity
plantation owner
Agricultural estate proprietor
oppressor · tyrant · despot · subjugator · colonizer · taskmaster · overseer · exploiter · abductor · persecutor
bondage
Involuntary subjugation to another
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- human traffickingCriminal trade in people
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
plantation system · Middle Passage · abolition · emancipation · manumission · auction block · indentured servitude · debt bondage · captivity · enslavement
enslaverliberator
One who frees others
emancipator · freer · releaser · deliverer · redeemer
enslaverabolitionist
Opponent of human bondage
emancipationist · freedom fighter · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · human rights defender
- enslaved laborWork compelled through ownership
- formerly enslaved