slaveowner
Bondage labor holder
A slaveowner is a person who legally holds other human beings as property.
The term appears primarily in historical contexts, especially discussions of the antebellum American South: Many of the Founding Fathers were slaveowners.
Also spelled as two words: slave owner.
Cruel, absolute ruler
- despotRuler with absolute power
- masterAuthority or controller
- overlordSupreme feudal superior
- taskmasterStrict work supervisor
dominator · autocrat · authoritarian · supremacist · persecutor · tormentor · abuser · exploiter
Before a war's start
- estateProperty and grounds
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
sugar · big house · overseer · fieldwork · harvest · chattel · bondage · servitude
Extending dominion over others
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- colonizerOne who occupies foreign land
- empireDomain under unified control
- dominationSupreme authority held
subjugation · settler · mercantilism · expansion · annexation · transatlantic · Middle Passage · triangular trade
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
- barbarismSavage, uncivilized behavior
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
- inhumanityExtreme cruelty toward others
callousness · heartlessness · sadism · malice · violence · degradation · humiliation · trauma
tyrant
Cruel, absolute ruler
taskmaster · dominator · autocrat · authoritarian · supremacist · persecutor · tormentor · abuser · exploiter · oppressor
antebellum
Before a war's start
tobacco · sugar · big house · overseer · fieldwork · harvest · chattel · bondage · servitude · whip
imperialism
Extending dominion over others
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- colonizerOne who occupies foreign land
- empireDomain under unified control
domination · subjugation · settler · mercantilism · expansion · annexation · transatlantic · Middle Passage · triangular trade · abolition
cruelty
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
- barbarismSavage, uncivilized behavior
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
inhumanity · callousness · heartlessness · sadism · malice · violence · degradation · humiliation · trauma · suffering
slaveownerslave
Owned human, forced laborer
bondsman · bondwoman · chattel · bondservant · captive
slaveownerabolitionist
Opponent of human bondage
emancipator · liberator · freedom fighter · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass
slaveowneremployer
One who employs others
employee · worker · contractor · laborer
own, owner, slave, slavery, ownership, enslave, slavish, enslaved, slaving