slaveowners
Owners of people
Slaveowners are people who legally held 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.
The compound emphasizes the possessive relationship central to the institution of slavery.
Formal discontinuation of practice
- Emancipation ProclamationExecutive order freeing Confederate slaves
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- AntebellumBefore the conflict
13th Amendment · Underground Railroad · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Dred Scott · Reconstruction · Middle Passage · 14th Amendment
Those with dominion
- subjugationForcing into submission
- dominationSupreme authority held
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
dehumanization · exploitation · punishment · coercion · control · violence · intimidation · separation
One who monitors work
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- sugarCrystalline carbohydrate sweetener
- estateProperty and grounds
manor · quarters · fieldwork · bondage · servitude · whip · harvest · cash crops
Compensation for historical wrongs
- systemic racismDiscrimination embedded in institutions
- generational traumaInherited psychological harm
- historical memoryShared recollection of past events
- monumentsStructures commemorating notable achievements
memorialization · descendants · genealogy · reconciliation · accountability · Lost Cause · whitewashing · apology
abolition
Formal discontinuation of practice
- Emancipation ProclamationExecutive order freeing Confederate slaves
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
Antebellum · 13th Amendment · Underground Railroad · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Dred Scott · Reconstruction · Middle Passage · 14th Amendment · plantation economy
masters
Those with dominion
- subjugationForcing into submission
- dominationSupreme authority held
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
brutality · dehumanization · exploitation · punishment · coercion · control · violence · intimidation · separation · branding
overseer
One who monitors work
estate · manor · quarters · fieldwork · bondage · servitude · whip · harvest · cash crops · auction block
reparations
Compensation for historical wrongs
- systemic racismDiscrimination embedded in institutions
- generational traumaInherited psychological harm
- historical memoryShared recollection of past events
monuments · memorialization · descendants · genealogy · reconciliation · accountability · Lost Cause · whitewashing · apology
slaveownersslaves
Persons owned by others
bondsmen · captives · chattel · bondswomen · bondspeople
slaveownersabolitionists
Those opposing human bondage
emancipators · liberators · Harriet Tubman · freedom fighters · Frederick Douglass