slavemaster
Owner of humans
A slavemaster is a person who owns or oversees enslaved people.
The term appears in historical contexts describing plantation owners and overseers in slave-holding societies: The slavemaster controlled every aspect of their lives.
Figuratively, it describes anyone exercising absolute, dehumanizing control over others: Her boss was a real slavemaster about deadlines.
Large-scale farming operation
- overseerOne who monitors work
- whipStrikes or aerates
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- chattelMovable personal property
cotton · tobacco · auction · manacles · fugitive · servitude · slaveholder · taskmaster
Supreme authority held
- subjugationForcing into submission
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
coercion · tyranny · despot · persecutor · tormentor · taskmaster · authoritarian · colonizer
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
chattel · cotton · tobacco · auction · manacles · fugitive · servitude · slaveholder · taskmaster · estate
domination
Supreme authority held
- subjugationForcing into submission
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- exploitationSelfish use of others
brutality · coercion · tyranny · despot · persecutor · tormentor · taskmaster · authoritarian · colonizer · suppressor
slavemasterslave
Owned human, forced laborer
bondsman · bondservant · chattel · serf · captive
slavemasterabolitionist
Opponent of human bondage
emancipator · liberator · freedom fighter · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass
slave, master, slaves, slaved, slaving, slavery, enslave, enslaved, enslaving