slave owners
Masters of bondage
Slave owners are people who legally possessed other human beings as property.
The term appears primarily in historical contexts, especially discussions of the American South before 1865: Many of the Founding Fathers were slave owners.
The compound emphasizes the property relationship—these weren't merely people who used enslaved labor but those who held title to human beings as chattel.
- exploitersThose who abuse others
- tyrantsOppressive absolute rulers
- whip handDominant controlling position
- overseersThose who supervise others
- oppressorsThose who subjugate others
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- slaverybondage, chattel, thrall, Middle Passage, slaveholders
- Antebellum Southplantation, cotton kingdom, overseer, big house, plantation house
- Caribbean Slaveryplantation, sugar plantations, abolitionists, Jamaica, Barbados
- colonial slaveryplantation system, bondage, servitude, manumission, plantation labor
- slaversslaveholders, enslavers, traffickers, overseers
- Abolitionabolitionists, Frederick Douglass, abolitionist movement, Underground Railroad, Emancipation Proclamation
slave ownersabolitionists
Those opposing human bondage
emancipators · freedom fighters · liberators · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman
slave ownersslaves
Persons owned by others
bondsmen · bondspeople · bondswomen · chattel · captives
slave ownersconductors
Those who direct ensembles
stationmasters · freedom seekers · runaways · maroons · Union soldiers
slave, owner, slaves, slaver, slavers, slavery, slavish, slavishly, enslaved