enslavers
Those who bondage
Enslavers are people who hold others in slavery.
The term has gained currency in historical writing as a replacement for "slaveholders" or "slaveowners," which some argue normalize the institution by framing it as mere property ownership.
Enslaver emphasizes the active role in creating and maintaining bondage: The enslavers of colonial Virginia built their wealth on tobacco and human suffering.
Those who subjugate others
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- dominationSupreme authority held
- dehumanizationDenying personhood to others
subjugation · control · hierarchy · capitalism · colonialism · imperialism · corporations · institutions
Owners of enslaved people
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- overseersThose who supervise others
- chattelMovable personal property
- abolitionistsThose opposing human bondage
trafficking · bondage · auction · shackles · transatlantic · antebellum · colonizers · captives
Those who trade illegally
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
smugglers · victims · survivors · prosecution · liberation · rescue · awareness · prevention
oppressors
Those who subjugate others
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- dominationSupreme authority held
dehumanization · subjugation · control · hierarchy · capitalism · colonialism · imperialism · corporations · institutions · wages
slaveholders
Owners of enslaved people
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- overseersThose who supervise others
- chattelMovable personal property
abolitionists · trafficking · bondage · auction · shackles · transatlantic · antebellum · colonizers · captives · rebellion
traffickers
Those who trade illegally
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
debt bondage · smugglers · victims · survivors · prosecution · liberation · rescue · awareness · prevention · legislation
- slaversslaveholders, traffickers, overseers, plantation owners
enslaversliberators
Those who free captives
emancipators · abolitionists · freedom fighters · freedmen · rescuers
enslaversslaves
Persons owned by others
captives · bondspeople · bondsmen · chattel · freedmen
enslaversabolitionists
Those opposing human bondage
Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · John Brown · human rights advocates · Sojourner Truth