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slaveholder

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slave·hold·er  (slvhldr)
n.
One who owns or holds slaves.
slaveholding adj. & n.
slaveholder [ˈsleɪvˌhəʊldə]
n
(Sociology) a person who owns slaves
slaveholding  n
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Noun1.slaveholderslaveholder - someone who holds slaves            
slave owner, slaver
holder - a person who holds something; "they held two hostages"; "he holds the trophy"; "she holds a United States passport"


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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded, the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
--Let it never be forgotten, that no slaveholder or overseer can be convicted of any outrage perpetrated on the person of a slave, however diabolical it may be, on the testimony of colored witnesses, whether bond or free.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
I would do even the same for the slaveholder as for the slave, if the Lord brought him to my door in affliction.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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