A slaveholder refers to a person who owns other people as slaves. They have control and power over the lives and labor of these individuals.
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Lawrence Grossman's review of Saul S. Friedman's book on Jews and the American Slave Trade (Briefly Noted, August / September) prompts me to note three aspects of that effort not previously covered in the literature on this newest wrinkle in the libeling of the Jewish people: (1) The number of slaveholders of Jewish descent was very low for the simple demographic fact that Jewish settlements in the South were few and located in mostly urban enclaves. (firstthings.com)
At his sloppiest he asserts the genetic link simply by referring to bigots and slaveholders as «Christians.» (firstthings.com)
Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself — it's as if the gay - rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)